🇨🇦 Criminal cases lost due to missed trial deadlines 'not acceptable,' says N.L. premier

The absurd part is not that Tony Wakeham says tossed criminal cases are not acceptable. The absurd part is that Newfoundland and Labrador apparently needed a media investigation before the justice minister decided to start tracking them. Cases vanish because the system blows trial deadlines, and the official response is basically: right, maybe we should keep count. That is not governance. That is managerial cosplay, as reported.

This is the Trudeau-era state in miniature: endless lectures about fairness, inclusion, and institutional virtue, but the core machinery of law and order wheezes like a dying fax machine. Citizens are told to trust the experts while basic sovereign functions like courts and public safety are treated as optional admin tasks. When criminal cases get tossed over delay and only then does government discover the radical concept of tracking outcomes, the ruling class is telling you exactly what it prioritizes, and it is not public order.

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