What constitutes a significant threat to the safety of the public?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from McAnuff (Re), 2020 ONCA 676 (CanLII):
A “significant threat to the safety of the public” is defined in s. 672.5401 as “a risk of serious physical or psychological harm to members of the public – including any victim of or witness to the offence, or any person under the age of 18 years – resulting from conduct that is criminal in nature but not necessarily violent.”. The threat must be significant both in the sense that there must be a real risk of physical or psychological harm, and in the sense that the harm must be serious: Winko v. British Columbia (Forensic Psychiatric Institute), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 624, at para. 57.
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