As our family waits for the upcoming trial date after almost four years since the homicide of my father, we brace for yet another notification that proceedings may once again be postponed.
This uncertainty has become a defining feature of our experience with Canada’s criminal justice system — a system that appears structured to tolerate delay, even when those delays deepen trauma for victims and their families. Each time the phone rings, we wonder whether justice will finally move forward or be pushed further out of reach.
