Premiers Demand Bail Reform in Letter to Prime Minister, Citing Murder of BC Woman

Published on July 23, 2024

Canada’s premiers have penned a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to push for a review of the country’s bail system after the slaying of a Surrey, B.C., woman in her home last month. Tori Dunn, 30, was killed in her home on June 16. Adam Troy Mann, the 40-year-old Ontario man charged in connection with her murder, had been released from jail just days before despite a violent criminal history. He had been charged in relation to another stabbing just a week prior to Ms. Dunn’s death. Ms. Dunn’s murder is one example of  what the premiers described as a growing trend of “repeat and violent offenders being released into our communities without proper considerations,” in the letter they penned at last week’s Council of the Federation meeting....

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