less than a year after bail reform tinkering, Canada's premiers tell Trudeau he hasn't gone far enough.

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Terms like bail and probation don’t mean much these days, not in Justin Trudeau’s catch-and-release justice system. A horrific homicide in British Columbia and a car-theft ring in Ontario may not seem related, but on this front they are.

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Both cases involve people charged with committing crimes when they never should have been out in the first place.

Now, provincial premiers from across the country have written to the Trudeau government in Ottawa asking for further reform to Canada’s bail-and-statutory release system. Remember, this group of premiers includes two New Democrats and a Liberal in their group and they are asking for action.

This comes just months after the federal government passed new bail reforms under Bill C-48 that made bail tougher to get in certain but limited circumstances. The changes put a reverse onus clause on bail for those charged with gun or intimate partner violence if they had been convicted of similar offences in the past.

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