Tea & Coffee With Paula & Jay | The Lavigne Show: Canadian homeowners face a precarious legal tightrope when defending their property: ambiguous standards of “reasonable force” and judicial discretion leave even well-intentioned acts of self-defence vulnerable to criminal charges, financial devastation, or reputational harm if authorities deem their response disproportionate to the threat. Reinstating “Castle Doctrine” or “Castle-like” principles could reduce ambiguity but conflicts with Canada’s emphasis on minimizing lethal force. This fascinating discussion looks at how the law (and the interpretation of the law) in tandem with the state, police enforcement, and legacy media has undermined the concept of individual autonomy and property rights to serve the shift towards collectivism, where even an intruder might be considered more in harmony with this ideology than a homeowner defending life and limb, their property and family.
Guests: lawyer Maxime Bernier of the People’s Party of Canada, David Sabine (the Airdrie-Cochrane Libertarian Party candidate), and law professor Bruce Pardy (who reveals that Canada’s Criminal Code did have sections that reflected the Castle Doctrine but these sections were repealed, ironically, by the Harper government (in a compromise bid to strengthen gun ownership rights).
The conversation on property rights and self-defence begins at the 26:48 mark.
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