It isn't just the health care system...

...that's imploding...

It took nearly seven months — or 205 days on average — for criminal charges to be resolved in Ontario courtrooms last year, up from 176 days in 2000 and 115 days in 1992, government statistics show.

While reducing appearances is a good start, Ontario courtrooms are still starving for more provincial resources, said Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory.

“There are lawyers and others who are gaming the system, sometimes perhaps at the instruction of their clients, to seek out delays for as long as possible so that the day of reckoning is postponed as long as possible,” he said.

“I think we’ve got to crack down on both of those. We’ve got to supply the resources and stop people from gaming the system, and I think that’ll make a big difference.”

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