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Peace bonds and preventive detention - International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group
Peace bonds – section 810.011 of the Criminal Code Peace bonds (more technically, “recognizances on conditions”) are essentially restraining orders. They are relatively commonplace in a non-terrorism context. After 9/11, peace bonds were extended to a terrorism context. Section 810.011 of the Criminal Code dictates that “A person who fears on reasonable grounds that another person may commit a …