Clearly, when parliament enacted sec. 2(f) of the Canadian Bill of Rights, it intended to assure that so fundamental and well established a principle of our law as the presumption of innocence should be preserved. In my opinion, the section provides protection against the possibility of the enactment of a statute declaring that a person shall be deemed guilty of a criminal offence unless he establishes his innocence.
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