As far as I am concerned, if a cop would not be charged for the use of force, then neither should the private citizen who is in the same situation. That's a pretty simple standard for me.

We need castle doctrine in Canada. Canada is getting dangerous and Canadians should have the right to protect their family and property. A criminal loses their right to life the moment they break into the home.

“A gun in your hand is better than 1000 cops on the phone.”

As a Canadian, I am DISGUSTED by some laws but that won't stop me from defending my loved ones.

In Canada, someone you don't know can walk into your home and ruin your life and YOU will be prosecuted more heavily than they would. That's our "justice system" in a nutshell...

I am Canadian.. If someone comes into my home uninvited i consider that a threat.. At that point the law means nothing to me.. What means something to me is the protection of my loved ones and i will do what ever i need to do.. Plain and simple..

Have the perpetrator fill out a questionnaire at the door so you can determine your appropriate coarse of action.

I had a guy break into my bedroom as I slept. This was the second time. He was a friend of my brother. After the first time, I kept a butcher knife next to my bed. So when I woke up hearing my screen being cut with a knife, I was terrified, as my back was facing the window. I reached down quickly & quietly to grab the knife as he was crawling in. I couldn’t find it. I quickly flipped around to face the intruder in the dark. That’s when he spoke & identified himself. He was drunk & at that point fear turned to anger. I told him to get the f out & he tried to explain himself. Which I got more forceful telling him to leave. He left & was charged. I now have a fear of being home invaded while I sleep & I wake up to any noise. I had to move out of the city, to find a quiet place & keep a machete next to my bed. I will not be a victim of any man or our broken corrupt legal system. Especially because my senior mom lives with me. I will protect myself & her at all costs. ❤ I love my mom.

In Canada, you're better off just not reporting it and hiding whats left of the intruders. When you get charged for defending yourself or you get sued because someone broke in and hurt themselves, the system is absolutely broken

When I was young and in the Canadian infantry, I was taught two things: 1. Reasonable force vs. unreasonable force; and, 2. "It's better to be judged by twelve than carried by six."

Step 1 - Disable intruder. Step 2 - Clean up mess. Step 3 - Move body to bad part of town. Step 4 - What altercation? Never seen him before.

As a Canadian if anyone I do not know enters my home in the middle of the night I consider them a threat to my life. It is sad when the justice system will ALWAYS PROTECT THE CRIMINALS and prosecute the honest law abiding citizens.

If someone breaks into my house, I'm not waiting to determine the level of threat.

Existing Canadian Laws are the reason crime is skyrocketing here. We need protection Laws like our US cousins.

4 days after major surgery, while I was in bed on maximum pain killers. A caregiver who quit the previous day because I asked her to vacuum, made unauthorized entry into my home and was screaming at me and refused to leave. I managed to get up using my walker and tried to escort her to the door. She body slammed my hip (I had had hip replacement surgery) into the wall at least 4 times and then ran out the door yelling her finger was bleeding. I collapsed on the floor dialed 911 and when the officer arrived she informed me that I could be charged with assault because I got out of bed... I still suffer from this situation. Canadian laws protect the evil, not the innocent, and we have no authority to protect ourselves.

As a Canadian, I have a wife and four kids. I will be using all the force I have

RCMP are there to keep the tax paying law abiding citizens in line.

“I was afraid for my life.” Remember that phrase and then ask to call your lawyer and don’t say anything else to the police.

We need a 2a in Canada especially after all these new Canadians we got and you should 100% be allowed to defend your house no questions asked

We need to change the law that protects the criminals and charges the victims.

Let me guess, in Canada you must let the criminal have anything they want so as Not to escalate things!

I accept my government doesn't care about us. I also accept the consequences for whatever actions I will take to preserve and protect myself, my loved ones, or my property.

If you had a gun in your nightstand would you be charged with improper storage of a firearm?

I think it’s very reasonable to believe you are in danger when someone is in your home.

Better to be judged by 12 then buried by 6. There is no such thing as "reasonable force" you never go into a "fair fight" unless you want to die.

I don't know the gun laws in Canada, but from what you said, the ammo and gun must be stored in different locations and the gun must have a trigger lock. I cannot imagine a firearm being rendered more useless. It seems clear that the Canadian government wants it citizens at a disadvantage when presented with a threat. The criminals also know the rules and expect law abiding citizens to comply. Advantage criminal.

The results came back on this situation and the milton man was acquitted. Honestly this is the stupidest law ever that we as home owners have to wait until the person breaking into your home escalates their advances... If someone is outside your home trying to break into your car its understandable that you can't just run outside and start attacking the person, they are clearly not trying to hurt someone by being outside. But lets be honest here, if someone breaks into your home KNOWING that you are inside, for me it means the person is willing to hurt someone by taking that chance. What am i supposed to do if i see a person in my house at 3am? Ask him if he wants a coffee first? and hope that he doesn't pull a gun on me? I have 2 young kids, the idea that i have to wait until the intruder does something to be able to escalate the situation is absolutely ridiculous... I know chances are that you'd get charged and then it would go to court for their decision and chances are you will get acquitted like this man, however the law should just be clear. It will make intruders think twice before going into a home knowing that the law protects homeowners fully in these situations. lets be honest, someone comes into your home, it means their willing to be violent if needed. You can argue that they are drugs and dont know what their doing which is honestly an even more dangerous intruder as they are unstable and unpredictable. There is just no situation in which this isn't a direct threat or danger to homeowners.

We need a stand your ground law in Canada. Also, the police and crown should be held accountable when they lay charges in self-defense cases. If someone breaks into your house you don't necessarily know if they are armed, what drugs they may be on, how strong they are, or how well they can fight. I've spent 30 yrs in law enforcement, and I've seen some small men that can really fight. Most importantly, you don't know that person's intentions.

"Ottawa has twisted laws to rob rural Canadians of the right to self defense in life or death situations when a police response could be hours away. When I advised Albertans to'shoot, shovel and shut up', I wasn't just telling them how to deal with a sick cow." -Hon. Ralph Klein

For anyone wondering, the charges against the man he is talking about were dropped.

Thanks for sharing Sir…God Bless You!

Anyone in your home is a deadly threat. They don't need to be armed. And if they are, that just amplifies the danger.

We need clearer more straightforward laws like they do in the USA. When I was 16 years old (this was in the 1970’s) I was home alone while my mother was on a medico- legal course in Toronto. The house was in the Alberta countryside about 35 minutes east of Edmonton. This man started banging on the doors and windows at 3 a.m. and I was terrified. I had a big dog which the guy had stabbed outside. I called RCMP and then grabbed a baseball bat. He did break in and I hit him several times with the bat and fractured his skull, one of his arms and shoulder. The police were going to arrest and charge ME, a terrified, blubbering 16 year old girl, with aggravated assault. In the end I wasn’t arrested or taken to the station because a friend of my mothers, a homicide detective in the nearby city of Edmonton, whose number I had been given in case of emergency while my mother was away, drove out to the house when I called him and told them not to be “ridiculous”. He pointed out that the man was obviously intending harm as he’d attacked the dog and then broken the glass in a window and climbed through it with a knife in his hand. They said I might still be arrested but for the moment I wouldn’t be taken in. As it turned out the man who broke in was wanted in Vancouver, Kelowna and Calgary for aggravated assault and rape as well as for a murder in Abbotsford, BC. There was no more talk of charges being laid against me after that. I mean I was terrified and quite frankly only remember hitting this ass once although apparently I clubbed him several times. The adrenaline is spiking and time does really weird things when you’re that scared. I don’t remember half of what happened between the time I swung the bat the first time and the time the RCMP appeared. To this day I’m still confused as to what is considered “reasonable force”. We desperately need clear and straightforward laws setting out what our rights are if someone invades our home which are supposed to be our safe place. We should be allowed to defend ourselves in our own homes without fearing that we’re the ones who will end up in jail. The perpetrators of crimes in this country have more rights than the victims in my opinion. If you’re going to invade someone’s home then you should know there might be consequences delivered by the people living there. By the way, our wonderful dog survived five stab wounds and lived to 14 years of age.

Years ago when I lived on Vancouver Island. I had someone enter my home illegally. I called the police and they came after the fact. Then the police, RCMP explained to me that they will not rescue a person under attack in their own home. They will come when they are comfortable that the bad guy has done what they were there for and is gone. Did not matter if the victim's life was in danger. They would simply arrest the bad guy, meanwhile you are either injured or dead. And heaven help you if you defended yourself and the bad guy got hurt in your home.

Canada does not have a "My home is my castle" No property protection rights IMO This must change !

As a gun owner in canada, I cannot keep my pistol loaded and within my reach in case an intruder enters my home, it just doesn't get any dumber!

I had some people break into my garage and I called the police. I asked what I would be allowed to do to defend my property… he said “call the police”… I replied, “I’ve got a wife and three kids in this house, if men break in my first priority is to protect them”. He told me “if you have the option to get away, like out the back door, or if you’re upstairs you can lock yourself in the bathroom or bedroom, then you need to take those options and then call the police. If you engage with the perpetrators when you could have backed away, we will charge you”… I couldn’t believe it. “Even if it’s in my own house and they broke in… I’m not allowed to stop them, protect my property and family” I said… he responded, “it our job to protect your family, not yours”… I love Canada, my family has been here for over 258 years… but it’s disgrace that our laws are so worse than Americas. And yea, some states don’t have stand your ground laws or last castle doctrines, but they have better free speech protection and more ways to keep yourself and family safe… not to mention our national media is subsidized by the federal government and oil companies like Irving Oil own local media. I used to see people get so excited when they paid off their mortgage… then I grew up and realized you don’t ever really own anything. That house that’s paid off is on government land you’re renting… and you want to leave extra stuff to your family, prepare to pay the tax. Just remember that if someone breaks into your house you better not defend yourself, because the courts will argue your force wasn’t reasonable and you’ll be in jail next to the thief

I live in Ontario, took my restricted firearms course and shortly thereafter our government took away my right to purchase a handgun, I would really like to know that I have that protection there should I need it. Thank you for the great information on this tricky subject.

This is great! Would love to see a video on the differences between Canadian and American laws for when you get pulled over.

im from quebec, and i did time for self defense. the case took 7 years to come to an end and after thousands and thousands of dollars only to be found guilty. i was given 18 months but only did 4. the officials in there couldnt believe that i was there in the first place, neither did the parole board wich is probly why they let me out so early. but even still, my grandmother died of an aneurysim on christmas day and my mother suffered from a massive stroke 2 weeks later. i was stuck in there, couldnt do nothing. the self defense laws are to limiting in canada.

We had a discussion about this a few months ago, and I decided that if I were charged for defending my person, and I was charged, I would be filing a civil case against the police for not protecting me in a timely manner, which required me to defend myself. If they don't want me to defend myself, then post an officer on the street outside my home.

Very timely and topical. I work for lawyers on use of force matters. If I could add, articulation at the scene is perhaps the single most neglected component and rarely discussed. The initial statement to the responding police can often determine the direction of the case. As a former use of force police instructor, this area "articulation" is always revisited during annual training. We also discuss tactical concerns, environmental, geographic, weapon systems, abilities of all parties, potential for other threats...and related impact factors that formulate an immediate action plan. Additionally, the recent statement by police regarding the leaving of keys by the door due to the prolific issue of home invasions must now be considered by police, courts, and property owners. Great discussion points...most people are good and honest, and therefore require training and awareness in this confusing area.

Hide weapons around your house for defense. They came into my house they consented to a combat situation. Any force I use on them is reasonable in my mind. Reasonable force is not standardized yet. I applaud this young man he should go free

As a Canadian i know if someone breaks into my house then they need to disappear without anyone seeing. Shovel, map, full tank of fuel and a busy night.

I new this man that had a variety store, he had been robbed a number of times when the store was closed, so fed up with losing money he bought a guard dog and left him in the store while it was closed. Sure enough on one night the criminal broke into the store to steal some cigarettes and the dog did his job, by the time the owner got to the dog to call him off, the dog ripped off a good portion of the mans face, then court time came, the criminal got awarded 140,000 in damages and the store owner phoned his family said good-bye and shot himself in the head, I talked to his daughter after the fact and she said the courts emptied what he worked a lifetime for and he just gave up, this is a true story, the criminal got 2 years less a day. He was a nice old man and I will miss him.

The court should have the same amount of time to bring a verdict as the person who had his home invaded had to figure out how to defend himself…….

Very well-done video, thank you for sharing

We need Stand-your-ground law in Canada. Call your MP, start a petition asap.

Most states in the US have a “Castle Doctrine”; meaning your home is your castle and you’re under no obligation to flee YOUR OWN HOUSE. The fact that he suggests you flee your own house in Canada means I don’t want to live there.

If the laws in Canada were changed to protect it's citizens and the criminals knew that if you break into someone's house that ANY force could be used against them, alot of this type of activity will be diverted. Texas is a great example of a State that allows you to defend yourself and your property, according to level of threat. The "Stand your ground"" law.

Great info thank you. Im really surprised a person busting in your house while you're sleeping isn't immediately, "fear for life".

Well that left me with not being any further ahead with a clear answer. Canada has to get things ironed out on this law.

I swear I was just thinking about this situation earlier this morning. As an American living in Canada, I am not comfortable with this particular law. No person/government agency is going to tell me how much force I can use to protect myself and my family from an intruder because They are not there in tgat moment. I'll deal with it after. Because it's so ambiguous, there should be no "Grey" areas. Black and white, he invaded my home, he deserves what's coming to him.

A couple of years ago in my province a man was charged with 2nd degree murder for shooting a home invader wielding a knife. To make a long story short, he was found not guilty and freed by a jury.

Hindsight proportional force is such a funny concept 😂😂😂.

The criminal has all the rights. They are basically allowed to do to you and/or your property what they want to. If it's self-defence, there should be no charges. As an untrained civilian, you probably don't have time to think about what might happen, or what the best scenario for you to apply might be. Better to ask for forgiveness than to ask permission. Isn't that what they are doing?

So the question is, how do we revamp our self defense laws so these injustices don’t happen anymore? It seems there’s a automatic bias against anyone using a gun to defend themselves

The fact that this was done by a lawyer tells you everything you need to know about self defense in Canada

Lol great comments! Bogus country we all share. My LOL is if someone breaks into your house and you don’t have a sufficient railing installed and they hurt themselves falling down your stairs you will be liable, remember this is an individual who trespassed in your property… so crazy

Remember it's not the judge, the police or even the politicians that make the laws - it's the citizens. And if a law is deemed unjust, it is the responsibility of the jury to find the person not guilty and find that law unjust during the trial.

These laws are embarrassing. why is there so much power given to criminals? why do they get to dictate the encounter when they make the choice to invade a strangers home? you have to wait for them to pull a gun on you before you can decide how to react? ridiculous.

The problem here seems to be that the victim is expected to analyze the situation rationally. In any unexpected violent attack, a victim will simply not be capable of making the kind of reasoned apprehension of the situation the courts expect.

I'm standing my ground. Take me to court.

My wife and I had only been married for two weeks living in a shady part of our city in a ground floor apartment. We were broken into and had our wedding gifts stolen including the gifts we gave to each other. My wife was so traumatized we moved out the very next day.

Lets make this simple.... If somebody breaks into another person's house then they have already signed their life away!

crazy someone can break into your house and you have to follow rules to keep the person breaking in safe.

The instant someone breaks into your home all bets are off. You deserve to defend yourself however you deem appropriate , period !

WWWOOOOWWW!!! I was unaware of this trickery mode of extracting fees from us. I guess i never checked in my banks statements my charges.... I must have been paying for these and not being aware of the charges. Thank you!!!

In Texas your a citizen, in Canada you are a subject, subjects don't have rights because they are not valued.

I live in Canada. I'm in a rural area, a man broke into my house. I woke up to the sound of glass smashing so I call the cops. I could hear my wife and kids needed help the man was hurting them, and I did what any Canadian man would do I lock myself in a room sat in my chair, and waited for the cops to do their job. I waited 25 mins, I remember the sounds I will always remember the sounds. cops arrived and shot the man, asked the cop why did you shoot him he said "Self-defense" As he caressed my hair, needless to say, I don't have a wife or kids anymore but I have a new cop boyfriend for he can protect me better than me. I still argue about the 25 min response time with him. In the Canadian government I trust, cuz your poor/middle-class family is expendable. I think only politicians have the right to self defense.

*POLITICIANS (LAWYERS) WRITE VAGUE LAWS THAT REQUIRE MORE LAWYERS TO ARGUE THEM IN COURT THAT ARE RULED OVER BY JUDGES (FORMER LAWYERS). TALK ABOUT JOB CREATION AND JOB SECURITY.*

Looks like the algorithm gods are at work and brought me to your vid. Very insightful and much needed info in these turbulent times.

“You can use reasonable force to protect yourself…”. If someone shows up in your house in the middle of the night, no reasonable person wouldn't fear for their safety, nor should they bet their life/the lives of their family members that they aren’t there to do them harm.

I will start by saying I lived in Texas for close to 20 years, so I am well aware of what can happen there if you break into someone’s house. What makes no sense about the law here is that I have to wait until they “communicate” their intentions to me before I know what force to respond with? In other words, I can only respond once attacked. So our law gives the criminal the upper hand…they get to go first? Nuts. If someone broke into my house, my only way out may be to pass them. Huh? Oh and I should retreat leaving my two kids upstairs in their beds? Our room is on the main floor and kids are up. Of course not, I am going to defend them. Since I have no clue of the intruder’s intention, the best defence of my sleeping kids upstairs may be to offensively attack the intruder so they retreat. Why do I have to retreat from my house? Listen, I can promise you I will do what I need to do if someone ever breaks into my home and deal with the consequences later. What other choice do I really have? One thing is for sure, I will be dead or they will be very sorry. The laws need to be changed in favour of the homeowner.

Why do criminals keep their rights in the courts? As far as I’m concerned the criminals should loose their rights when they choose to trespass and likely steal and or do harm to the home owner . Maybe if the courts were tougher on criminals in the first place maybe we’d have less crime across the country.

Shoot, shovel, and shut up? Better to be judged by 12, then carried by 6. 3 stages to surving a home invassion: 1)preperation: firearms, martial arts, better doors and locks. 2)surviving the conflict 3) winning the fight after the fight. Jail time, lawyer fees, the guys family is coming after you now too, social recoil because you killed someone, wife leaves with the kids, fired from job, can't sleep.... the sheer trauma of going through all of it would be awful.... but better to have a plan, then to me murdered in your bed.

I love how the laws for self defence are framed like it’s some gentleman’s duel or weight class fight with a referee. I don’t give a damn. If somebody breaks into my house to harm my family it is my right and responsibility to stop them. I want every advantage over the assailant. I want to come out on top. Calling 911 and hiding sucking on my thumb waiting for the police to save me is not a reasonable option. When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

The trouble in Canada... is the lack of personal accountability. It's one sided. The homeowner has to be personally accountable to what he does to the intruder... but the intruder doesn't need to fear consequences for his actions towards Joe citizen in the moment... only if he's properly apprehended by police and put before the courts. If you grab your kids and flee while calling the police... and the intruder/s is caught... they only will be charged. If you fight back or your dog bites them... then you may also face charges... and your dog will be put down. No one asked the intruder to break into your home... he chose to. If the consequences are immediate and life threatening to the intruder... that is a direct consequence for his own inappropriate actions (break and enter, threatening with or assaulting with a weapon.) The moral would be... if you don't want to get shot at, hit with a bat or bitten by a dog... don't break into someone elses home. It's that simple. I like 'right of castle'... it actually empowers home owners to protect themselves in their own homes.

Great video and good to know this stuff. People don't realize that living in a house they are vulnerable. I feel 100% secure living in an apartment building ....only one way in, a metal fire door.

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I'm not worried about self-defense in my house in the country of Canada. I took the Jean Chretien self-defense course. I am now an expert at throwing my wife at an armed intruder and locking the bedroom door so they can sort it out between them.

Anyone who thinks they can charge me for defending my family, my home should go to hell. Threaten my wife and children's safety and you will pay the ultimate price!

Don’t let them leave… Something tells me they didn’t tell anyone they were coming. Nobody will notice them missing…

The old saying I was told when I got my RPAL. I'd rather be tried by 12 then carried by 6

I have a family and ive always been scared for this situation. I want to be able to defend my family and not go to jail.

The ambiguous nature of the Canadian laws is troublesome, and it's unsettling as a citizen. The problem is simply that every situation is going to be unique, and expecting people to reflect and consider the situation unemotionally and with a calm mind when there may only be seconds in which to react to a home invader in the middle of the night is not reasonable or practical. That's the reality of it. A stranger that has broken into your home in the middle of the night poses an "undetermined" threat that may potentially lead to your demise. If you can't escape immediately then you pose an existential threat to the intruder which is a very dangerous situation. If they are armed with a knife they can kill you very quickly as you are considering what you might or might not be allowed to do legally. I find it ridiculous that we have this problem in Canada. It's outrageous. An intruder by default poses a life threatening risk to you the moment he enters your home uninvited.

I detained a home invader and waited for the police. In Ontario, Canada. No violence involved. The police informed me that the invader “could” press charges against me for forceable confinement. They suggested that they would not offer this info to the invader, but just wanted to make sure I knew. I didn’t call them for subsequent invasions.

The problem with letting the court resolve it is the massive lawyer bill in doing so. If someone breaks into your house the owner has the right to defend themselves.

If they are in your home uninvited and you feel threatened you should be able to end them and remove the risk. They put themselves in that situation. It's called illegal entry and you have no clue what their intentions are. End the threat!

You should see how the RCMP responds to people being attacked in their homes in BC. I know of many instances of this, but a well-reported example that happened only just a few months back occurred in Kamloops. A man, presumably on drugs, drilled through his floor into a neighbour's apartment with a giant ice auger in the middle of the night. Then the man jumped through the hole and attacked the residents of that apartment. A man grappled with the assailant who was beating him with the ice auger, while the victim's mother called the cops. Cops arrived, chased the man outside, then had to arrest him at gun point. Take a wild guess who got charged in this scenario. Furthermore, I am sure that there is a correlation between people understanding that their lives will be ruined if they call the cops and increasing amounts of missing drug addicts.

We need castle doctrine in Canada. The way I see it, if someone breaks into my home, they should not have the privilege of walking out.

I found a "hack". You can't "attack" using 100% defensive weapons. So, under my bed, I have a full protective motorcycle "onesie" (takes me 10 seconds to wear), and a pair of steel toe NewRock shoes (punk shoes, with lots of metal plates everywhere). My straight, side, and backspin kicks are pretty good (can reach 6 ft easily). Elbows and knees become really strong when you're wearing motorcycle protective gear... And no one can blame me for the shoes, because I wear them when I go to concerts as well... So they're not really a weapon. That means all I do is considered "hand to hand combat". It might not be 100% proofed from a legal standpoint, but it will be much harder to get me on assault with a weapon that way.

The crown dropped this case last week. The Crown felt they would never get a conviction.

In manitoba a couple years ago, a 16 year old young fist nations lady was in a vehicle with others, nobody was armed, and was shot to death by an officer. The officer was not charged, and still has a job. The fact is that in Canada, the law has more protections for the criminal than for the victims.

Canadian laws do not protect the law abiding citizens. I was stalked, threatened, home and vehicle vandalized, property stolen, friends harassed and had the crazy jerk banging on my door at night. I even had him caught on home surveillance video and the police still did nothing. Courts would not let the police remove his firearms so they told me to move to another province. I lost our family‘s homestead as a result. It was a scary several years. So very frustrating. I was told that if I slapped his fingers with a yardstick while he vandalized my vehicle, I would be the one behind bars. I now live in a different province and under a married name.

Around 2:00 min …. If the homeowner is in Canada, they would not have “… a firearm in their nightstand.” It would be locked up in a safe, with ammo locked up separately.

Posessing a baseball bat for the purpose of self defence is a criminal offence in Canada. The baseball bat under my bed is not for self defence… it is there to block the roomba from getting tangled up in extension cords.

Don't forget to factor in Canada's racism. Victim or perpetrator, if either or/both are some sort of BIPOC, the police & courts will side with them at any cost to avoid being called racist.

I find it disgusting that police can use more disproportionate force against suspects than a citizen despite having training and not be criminally charged but they'll arrest citizens and let the courts sort it out without much care. The average citizen is expected to rationally assess a situation where they've been woken up in the middle of the night, it's dark in the house, can't see whether the criminal is carrying weapons and what their intentions are.

The fact that you have to worry about interpreting the intentions of someone breaking into your home right, or you'll face charges is very wrong and worries me a lot. Home is a sacred place, and it's the one place where we all truly can put our guards down. Someone willingly breaking that, should by default be considered a threat to ones life. I don't like to gamble with my life and that of my family, because one makes the rational or irrational decisions to break into my home. You simply don't break into someone's home by accident. You are willingly trying to cause harm. That should mean something.