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ROBSON: Tough-on-crime rhetoric means nothing if RCMP DNA labs can’t deliver

Daniel Robson

4 hours ago

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Delayed biology casework, mounting backlogs, and reliance on private testing expose a broken evidence pipeline that threatens Canada’s justice system from the inside.

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