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Chris Selley: Let's livestream the Canadian justice system — all of it

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford is in Big Ideas Mode again, and not all of them have to do with hisbecoming de-facto mayor of Toronto. For one thing, he wants bail hearings to be live streamed on the internet.

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“We’re exploring new measures to bring our bail system out into the open by (broadcasting) hearings, which right now are not accessible to the public except for people who go in person,” Ford said in Brockville, Ont. on Monday.

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Politically speaking, I’m not sure this is the wisest idea. Even more than the average premier, Ford’s tougher-on-crime pitch is heavily invested in most everything being the feds’ fault. (To be fair, Ford was in Brockville to announce the reopening of a provincial jail.) “We need the federal government to follow through with their........

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