Today's Star

First, remove the handcuffs from judges and let them do the job they are paid to do: judge. One Criminal Code amendment can undo the worst of the mandatory measures that have eliminated judicial discretion and thereby reduced public safety. It could provide that, notwithstanding any other provisions, a judge may impose something other than the mandatory measure. Judges could be required to state in open court what the compelling reasons were for their decisions.

http://m.thestar.com/#/article/opinion/commentary/2015/12/04/four-fixes-for-canadas-broken-justice-system.html

Of the Law Societies of Upper Canada and Nunavut