The leader of the Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, is asking the Federal Government to amend the Criminal Code so that the use of force would be reasonable when used against a person who enters illegally into a house and represents a threat to people inside.
“After 10 years of liberals, the system treats victims as criminals and criminals as victims,” Pailievre said during a press conference outside a private residence in Brampton, Ontario.
According to the current law, Canadians are not guilty of a crime if they believe for reasonable reasons that the force (or the threat of force) is being used against them or another person.
Your defense act must also be with the purpose of defending or protecting itself and being reasonable in circumstances.
When determining if the act of defense is “reasonable”, the courts consider nine factors, including the nature of the threat, the physical capabilities of the parties in the incident, the history of the parties in the incident and if some part used or threatened with weapons.
The conservative leader said that Canadians who defend their homes “do not have time to think about nine conditions” and that it is wrong for the law to apply “a complicated and indecipherable legal doctrine when I was only doing the right thing.”
Pailievre also said that the federal government can implement its principle of “stand on guard” or otherwise a conservative parliamentarian will promote the idea in the bill of a private member.
More to come
