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Subject: [OT] Self-defense in Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 22:08:35 -0500
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I just saw this video about a guy in Toronto who experienced a home 
invasion and was only able to reach someone on 911 on the 5th try - 
after the invaders had left.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCFiuiX38TI [2 minutes]

The comments under the video, if true, are quite disturbing in some 
cases. I was especially troubled about the guy who called 911 and had to 
be transferred to 4 other 911 operators (around the province) before he 
finally got one that spoke English!!! Silly me, I would have assumed 
that fluency in English (and maybe French) was a prerequisite for a 911 
operator in this country....

I got to wondering for the umpteenth time about what my rights were with 
respect to self-defense. As luck would have it, the algorithm put this, 
video by a Canadian lawyer at the top of my suggested videos list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xolys_2hl4 [8 minutes]

Clearly, we do NOT have anything like Stand Your Ground or Castle 
Doctrine here! The presenter, who is apparently a practising lawyer, 
repeatedly mentions a case where a home-owner shot and killed an 
intruder who had threatened to hurt his elderly mother and was charged 
with 2nd degree murder. (The video is a year old so I'm curious to know 
what happened with this case but he doesn't give enough details to 
research it.)

I expect that if a crisis happened to me where I had to defend myself, 
I'd just do whatever seemed necessary and hope that the legal system 
wouldn't screw me over but I wouldn't be so naive as to assume that 
there would be no consequences.

-- 
Rhino