Daniel Simpson has been facing criminal charges since 2018. Since then, he has lost his licence, car, job and home — a high price, he says, for charges that should have been tried by now, according to Canada’s top court. 

“I feel like a statistic,” the Windsor, Ont., man said. “I kind of feel like the judicial system or judicial authority system kind of failed me. I’m just here trying to survive.”

Simpson is accused of speeding out of a Guelph, Ont., parking spot and hitting a bylaw officer in June 2018 while he was living in that city. Police charged him with dangerous driving, failure to