On Tuesday, Edmonton mayoral candidate Rahim Jaffer issued an open letter calling on big-city mayors across the country to band together and demand the Carney government bring in meaningful bail reforms, not the piddly, window-dressing reforms introduced by the Trudeau Liberals last year.

“We’ve seen police in particular find it very hard to do their jobs when they’re having to deal day in, day out with the same handful of repeat offenders, who keep ending up back on the street,” Jaffer charged.

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Indeed, a growing number of crimes across Canada are being committed by offenders who are on one form or another of bail while awaiting trial for earlier offences or who have been released early from prison.

Take the case of Cody Desjarlais, who was released on bail on July 4

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