Criminal justice policy during the Conservative years and how it might change under the new Liberal government is the topic of a Truscott lecture being held at the University of Guelph tonight.

The speaker is Anthony Doob, a University of Toronto professor who was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2014 for his research on criminal justice.

He will speak from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Ontario Veterinary College’s Lifetime Learning Centre, Room 1714.

The talk is free and open to the public.

The lecture series is part of the Truscott Initiative launched at U of G in 2009. It was created to improve understanding of the nation’s complex criminal justice system, and to highlight how criminal justice intersects with other policy areas and broader conceptions of justice.

The initiative was named for Guelph resident Steven Truscott and his family. Truscott is known across Canada for his decades-long battle to prove his innocence after the 1959 murder of his schoolmate Lynne Harper. He was wrongly convicted of the crime at age 14 and spent years in prison before his release in 1969. He was acquitted by the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2007.