What is the current state of the law on cruel and unusual treatment in Canada?

31. It was not until fifteen years after the enactment of the Canadian Bill of Rights that a more in depth analysis of the protection afforded by s. 2(b) was undertaken. The only decision finding a treatment or punishment to be cruel and unusual under the Canadian Bill of Rights was McCann v. The Queen, 1975 CanLII 1104 (FC), [1976] 1 F.C. 570.