A 90-day residential drug treatment program may be insufficient to ameliorate an unacceptable risk where the accused has an extensive history of drug trafficking, firearms offences, breaches of bail and court orders, and evidence of continued offending from custody, particularly where the treatment period is short relative to the likely bail period. The finding that exceptional circumstances existed due to COVID-19 delay was not challenged and remains undisturbed.
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