PROPOSED CHANGES TO TRIAL PROCEDURE: BAD CASES MAKE BAD LAW 1. No peremptory challenges to the jury panel. Who then is going to ensure the jury is representative and impartial if anybody? The Judge? Or will the jury simply be the first 12 people on the list? 2. No more preliminary inquiries. In practice, preliminary inquiries work to speed up the entire process.

Legal experts say proposed changes to the Criminal Code after a high-profile acquittal in the fatal shooting of an Indigenous man are short-sighted.

Source: Canadian lawyers worried about proposed changes to trial system