TOP COURT TO RULE ON PAROLE CHANGES BROUGHT IN BY TORIES

The Supreme Court of Canada will rule on a piece of legislation from the previous Conservative government’s tough-on-crime agenda. The country’s highest court agreed Thursday to hear a case on changes to the parole system. In 2012, the Conservatives abolished the requirement for the Parole Board of Canada to hold an oral hearing after the suspension, termination or revocation of parole or statutory release. The two plaintiffs say that violates constitutional rights guaranteed in the federal Charter of Rights and Freedoms.