Juno News - February 03, 2026Conservative MP SLAMS Carney's crime crisis
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In the wake of a home invasion that left a homeowner dead, the Conservative Party's proposed "Castle Law" has come under fire. Could a similar law have prevented the homeowner from being killed by masked intruders in the first place?
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Suspects in connection with a deadly home invasion has raised questions about the
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conservative party's proposed castle law. Could that have saved the life of a homeowner in this
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particular case? Peel police have arrested and charged seven men from Toronto suspected of
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forcing their way into a Mississauga home back in October 2024. The homeowner of 55-year-old
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men was shot dead. Now in his speech on the weekend, Pierre Polyev, leader of the conservative
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party, talked about the need for a castle law aimed at providing legal protections for those who use
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lethal force to defend their home. Let's listen. We will also protect the freedoms of law-abiding
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people with a new castle law that allows you to take whatever action necessary to protect your
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family against home invaders. Now for the law to apply, certain conditions would have to be met,
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illegal entry, and a clear threat from armed masked intruders, all of which applied in this particular
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case. Critics of the existing law say using lethal force against an intruder could see the homeowner
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end up charged. That has actually happened. Question is, could the castle law have made a difference in
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this case? We'll ask security expert Ross McLean what he thinks minutes from now. Meantime, the federal
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government's bail laws are also under scrutiny today. CTV News with this headline,
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high-risk sex offender rearrested within two hours of latest release.
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The 36-year-old suspect released from custody in Guelph Provincial Court. This post by Melissa
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on X. This is insane. A high-risk offender was released and rearrested within two hours of being
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released. He has a history of violence and sexual assaults on strangers. Not the first time for a
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situation like this either. Why is our government putting Canadians at risk? It's not safe.
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Our guest is Larry Brock, Conservative MP for the writing of Brantford Brant. And Larry posted this
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on X. Released, re-offended, rearrested, all within two hours. Welcome to the show, Larry.
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Well, talk about that. I mean, here we have another horror story, bail-related,
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where people who really should not be on the streets, suspected of heinous crimes,
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dangerous individuals are right back on the street. I mean, this is
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getting beyond ridiculous now, isn't it? It truly is. This is a pattern that we have
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seen consistently for the last 10 years. It is a pattern that I saw when I was in the trenches
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working as an Ontario Crown Attorney, all stemming from the change of policy by this Liberal government
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under Justin Trudeau and now with Mark Carney to prioritize the interests and the benefit of the
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accused at the expense of victims and community safety. 2019, they ushered in Bill C-75, which brought
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in the principle of restraint, amended the criminal code under Section 493.1, and dictated to judges
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and JPs who hear bail hearings every single day across this country that you must release the accused
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at the earliest opportunity on the least restrictive conditions. That was, in my opinion, the origin
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of catch and release. People are just getting sick and tired. I know police are frustrated.
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Premiers have called out for this government to finally wake up to the realities that are happening
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in our streets. Mayors are crying out for change. Police chiefs, victim advocacy groups, politicians such
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as myself. And what it's going to take for this government to finally realize that we've got a problem
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here and to realize that their number one job as a federal government is to keep us safe. Well, it remains
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to be seen whether or not any of their justice bills that are currently before the House of Commons,
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C-14 and C-16, is going to make the necessary changes to keep us safe.
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Speaking of those two pieces of legislation, the Liberals are saying, well, now it's the leader,
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here, Polyev, who's obstructing the progress and the movement of that. I mean, clearly things were a
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lot better before the Liberals took over on this front, but they've shown an indication of looking
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to bring in legislation that will improve things. You've had a look at it. What do you think? I mean,
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I will start by saying that narrative that started before Christmas and continued to pick up steam
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after the new year leading up to the return of the House was an absolute lie, Mark. At the Justice
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Committee, they chose, the Liberals and the Justice Minister chose to prioritize the very divisive Bill C-9
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that was before the Justice Committee. They made a backroom deal at the very last minute
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to actually support a Bloc Québécois amendment to take away a religious exemption that has been
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part of the criminal law for the last four decades. And that was a red line that we weren't prepared
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to cross. We heard from faith leaders right across this country absolutely concerned with the potential
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of criminal prosecution by simply reading out passages from their holy books. So instead of
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prioritizing C-14, they chose the opposite. One week before the Christmas break, Mark, our party brought
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forth 19 separate motions at the Justice Committee to prioritize C-14 and deal with the Bail and Sentencing
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Reform Act because we knew this is what Canadians wanted. This is what stakeholders wanted. And each
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and every time, Mark, they refused our ability to pivot to bail. So they can't have it both ways. They
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lied to Canadians saying that it was the Conservatives that were posturing, that were obstructing,
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that were preventing them from getting to this particular study. The proof is in the pudding. It didn't
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happen that way. So our leader has now taken the appropriate approach. We are prioritizing these
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justice bills because we need to deliver results for Canadians. Tomorrow, we actually start at the
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Justice Committee clause by clause consideration of Bill C-14. We've got resources marked, believe it or not,
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all the way to one o'clock in the morning on Thursday to ensure that we have sufficient time
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to deal with all of the amendments to make that bill stronger.
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It sounds like they want to use that bail reform bill as a bargaining chip in order to try to push
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through Bill C-9. You would know better than I what they're up to here. But I mean,
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put this as being an election issue, I mean, there's a lot of talk that we may be headed to the polls in
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2026. And I think the Liberals want to be seen to be doing something on bail reform, which is clearly
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something they're not interested in since, let's face it, over the last 10 years, they've done nothing
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in that regard, except make things worse when they first got in. So go ahead.
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I found it rather ironic in his end of year interview, this is Sean Fraser, when he interviewed with the
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national press, that, you know, the Liberal government and he and his office were listening
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to Canadians. Well, where was those listening skills literally for the last 10 years? And
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specifically since my election in 21, I have been rattling the chains trying to bring this to the
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attention. I have been crisscrossing this country, Mark, doing town halls in every single province and
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territory. Everyone is consistent in the messaging. Please wake up federal government and give us
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results. We have to prioritize communities, justice for victims, no more excuses for criminals.
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Can you throw in a matter of a comment regarding the castle law, which the leader spoke about,
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as you know, in Calgary, and whether or not that might have made a difference? And it's hard to
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tell. And I realize that we're talking about hypotheticals here, but just we just see seven
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people arrested in the case of Mississauga, a matter in which a home was invaded and the homeowner
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ended up being shot dead. Yes. Heartbreak story. Absolutely heartbreak. It is, I guess,
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is a testament to the good investigative techniques by that local police service. It did take a while
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to put all the pieces together. Charges have now been laid. What started off as a home invasion with
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the intent to steal turned into a deadly consequence. And that's generally what happens with home invasions.
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There is always that prospect that victims who have every right to defend their home, defend their
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assets, defend their lives, defend their family, are often disposable assets when it comes to these
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criminals. So the leader has come out very strong. I was part of a press conference last summer in
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Brampton, where the leader introduced a policy, asking Mark Carney and the Liberal government to
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poach this idea. And the idea was a castle law type of policy. He called it the stand on guard policy to
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flip the legal test to empower homeowners that have to make that split second decision mark. Literally,
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you know, within seconds, do I hide? Do I run? Do I fight back? Do I defend my assets and protect my life
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and to protect my family? We want to make sure that the law is abundantly clear that the actions you take
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where you fear bodily harm and or death results in you making decisions that are deemed to be reasonable
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up front, as opposed to the current regime, Mark, that allows a judge some several months, if not several
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years removed after the fact, sitting in their comfort of their chair in a courtroom, deciding on an
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eight-part test, trying to determine on those eight grounds whether your actions and all the circumstances
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were deemed to be reasonable. It has led to convictions. It has led to complete upheaval for homeowners who
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simply wanted to defend themselves, the expense of going through the court process, hiring a lawyer,
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the embarrassment, the time commitment, the constraints on your family, on your job, completely
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unnecessary. So our view is this. If we can change the law to reflect and to deal with the rising level
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of home invasions, violent, deadly home invasions in this country, it hopefully will put a pause on
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police services with a new law to decide appropriately that the actions taken by that homeowner were
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reasonable. We have a case in Calgary, if you remember, not too long ago, which resulted in a
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homeowner making that split-second decision to defend herself. And the Calgary police services
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applauded her actions. That is common sense laws or common sense approach by law enforcement. We want
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to give them the tools. We want to make sure that we send the appropriate deterrent message as well
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to these would-be brazen criminals that you are literally taking your own life in your hands should
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you decide to violently enter someone's castle and use a weapon in circumstances that you were prepared
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to end someone's life. It could be. Larry, thank you. I appreciate your comments and appreciate you
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coming on the show today. Happy to do that. Happy to come back, Mark. Thank you very much.
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Larry Brock. Our guest today is former law enforcement officer and bodyguard to the billionaires,
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Ross McLean, who is also a host of the McLean Chronicles. Welcome, Ross.
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Yeah, good to be with you, especially on this topic. I think it's something I can add some info to for the
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viewers and listeners. Yeah, absolutely. And we look forward to that insight because you bring in a law
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like this, and it can either be a great thing for people looking to defend their own homes, or in the eyes of
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some, it could turn the country into the Wild West. I mean, I don't think that that's the case, but that would be the
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argument against it. So in this particular case that we spoke about earlier, you had an individual,
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a 55-year-old man in his home, four individuals, masked, broken, forced their way into the house,
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and they were armed, and the homeowner ended up being shot dead. Someone else in the home ended up
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being shot. Could a case like this, and I realize it's hard to be hypothetical because there are a lot of
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unpredictable things that might have happened, but I don't see how it could have ended up much worse,
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except maybe the other person ending up dead too. What do you think in a case like this? Could a
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castle law have helped save this individual? Absolutely, it could have helped save this
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individual, in my opinion. Let me tell you why. These bad guys, when they're planning to break in,
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obviously when they brought their guns, they're planning on using those guns, or they have the ability
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to use them, which can end your life in a heartbeat. And when you're in your home, you have to try to
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defend yourself. The joy for these people who come in and do these home invasions, Mark, and some of
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them come from other countries to come here to do the home invasions. They're not even citizens,
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because they know that it's easy pickings here. They come in because they have the guns, and they
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know what they can do. Let me give you a real-life example. It used to be back in Florida, when I used
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to send executives down to Florida, we used to tell them when they would get a rental car at the airport,
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take off the license plate thing that says Hertz rental car on it. You know why? Because in Florida,
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residents are allowed to register guns to their cars. The bad guys wait outside the airport, they look
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for these rental things on the cars, and they rob you, because they know you don't have a gun.
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So your ability to commit a crime is directly inverse to your likelihood of being caught, or being
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badly hurt doing the crime. So a castle law would have helped in this case. And for the law to apply,
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certain conditions would have to be met. Now, obviously, we're nowhere near the passage of any
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such law, because the conservatives are in opposition. But you would have to have illegal
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entry. You'd have to have a clear threat by armed, masked intruders, which certainly applies in this
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case. So I would think that the criterion would be met in this particular case. And I guess you have to
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also factor in the deterrence aspect to it. I mean, if they know that you, you are a firearms owner,
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then there might, might be a lot less likely to break into your house. What do you think?
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Yeah, absolutely. And the police, and as you know, I'm former law enforcement, they, in Canada,
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they've been doing this all wrong, in my humble opinion for it. And so have the courts. They talk
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about when someone breaks into your house in the middle of the night, you're sleeping, they had one case
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where a guy came in with a crossbow, and was pointed at the guy when he came in, and they wanted to
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charge the homeowner in that case with excessive force. Look at, I know how to fight, I know how to
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look after myself, Mark. And let me tell you, someone comes at me in the middle of the night,
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or anywhere, I don't know what they're trained to do. I don't know what it takes for me to put them
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down, so they won't get up. So they won't get up and go for that knife they have beside them,
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or the other gun that they have beside them. I am going to put them down. And it's the exact
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same thing police do. You go pull a firearm or point a crossbow at a cop, you're going to be,
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you're going to get a little lead awakening is what you're going to get pretty quick. I don't even think
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they would go to the taser. So they've been judging people saying, oh, you just should have
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knocked them down. You just should have held them. You can't use excessive force. And these homeowners
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who did not invite this break and enter guy are broken into, and they're facing hundreds of
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thousands of dollars in legal fees, possibly going to jail, all because criminals broke right into
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their home. It can't, it can't go on that way. And the police and our politicians better start having
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a talk about this because it's not right the way that they're doing it. It's not the way the police
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defend themselves. It's not the way any politician would have to be defended by somebody. So it should
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be good enough for the poor little taxpayer who has a home to try and let his family live, Mark.
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Yeah. Sometimes the police officers have different takes on this. Like they say, no, let us do
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that work. You know, don't do anything yourself. You're not trained. Just, you know, hang back and
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let the criminals do what they're, what they're doing. And in fact, in one case, a famous case in
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which the police chief came out and said, well, make sure your, the keys to your vehicle are handy so that
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they won't have a hard time locating it. So they can steal your vehicle a lot easier, you know,
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kind of thing. And of course we have even the former prime minister. I haven't heard from this one.
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The newer guy talk about it, but Justin Trudeau said, well, we don't defend ourselves in Canada.
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No, we just stay back. We're passive. We're like sheep. When somebody wants to rob us, we just allow it
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to happen. I don't think that's, that's good. That guarantees you're going to get robbed.
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It's none of this is based on real life. And these judges who decide these things in the Supreme
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Court, they are all wacko in a bubble. Let me tell you, judges are treated and pampered here like
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royalty. They don't understand what it is to have someone break into their house or stalk them
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because there's a whole setup of law enforcement to protect them. They have people who put their robes
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on for them, carry their books for them, put them in limousines for them. They don't know what it is
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to do this. And they decide on the head of a pin. Oh, I think that was just a little bit too much
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force. And you shouldn't be able to do that. Yet all the force in the world would be used to defend
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them, Mark. So I think we really do have to do pick up the game a little bit. I'll just tell you
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one anecdotal story. Someone in the recent past, there was somebody who was meaning to cause a lot
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of trouble at this one protected private, let's say, organization that was doing something.
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And the police happened upon them and managed to stop them and everything else. And I talked to the
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officers who were making the arrest. And they suggested, we really wish your guys would have
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got to them first, because you'd have been able to deal with them better than we would have dealt with
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them. Because we just, we just put the arm on, took them and arrested them. So even the police
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in the street, they know what it is to have to protect yourself. They want to go home every night.
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Well, Mark, so does every father. So does every father and mother want to go home and look after
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their children. Yeah, it is interesting. You raised Florida earlier. The law enforcement officials here
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say, you know, you'd be doing us a big favor if you could shoot dead. Anybody breaks into your house
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would save on some of the paperwork and having to charge the person. But the attitude is very
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different. And interestingly enough, Carolyn Levitt, the White House spokesperson, just posted
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something about the crime rate in many American cities being at a record low. Look at cities like
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Washington, D.C., for instance, where Trump sent in the feds to basically bring peace and stability to
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the streets. And it worked. So people are allowed to walk around freely in cities like Washington and
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New Orleans. So it works. But it's a very different attitude. But I don't think for a minute that our
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current government, and it's in the midst of a gun grab, would defend anybody's right to defend
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themselves in their own home. It's absolutely outrageous. But that's the nature of the government
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we have in there right now. What do you think? Yeah, I think that the attitude or the feelings
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of the actual people, the real grassroots people, they know what it is. They know exactly what it is.
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All of these politicians and, you know, liberal lefty police chiefs, they're not in touch with it.
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They just say, oh, you do nothing. Wait for us to come. It's too late a lot of the times, man. It is too
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late a lot of the times. I can remember being an officer, putting in a call for an assist PC.
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And I'd have, you know, 20 other coppers there in 45 seconds. So bail me out. And you know what
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that 45 seconds felt like? Felt like 45 days, Mark. You know, let alone you're looking at 10,
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15 minutes to a 911 call to get to your house if someone's breaking into your house and threatening
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your family. Let's talk a little bit about the bail issue. And I realize it's a different issue. But
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again, we're into a philosophy and ideology by a government that seems to favor the victim
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or the perpetrator rather than the victim. In this case, we had yet another sort of bail
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horror story, if you will, the high risk sex offender rearrested within two hours of latest
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release. This is, you know, there's a 36 year old suspect released from custody in Guelph
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Provincial Court. And it's just, you shake your head at how often this happens. It's so dangerous.
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No wonder so many people, women feel unsafe on the streets with these provisions, these bail
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provisions that allow perps right back on the streets. Well, what do you think of this latest
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case? Yeah. And let me tell you something. Go ahead and Google AI, search that all you want. You
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won't be able to really find out the details of why this guy was such a high risk offender. We don't
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know if it's something as simple as running up and grabbing someone from the behind, which I don't
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think it was, to something really, really, really egregious. They don't put that out there. So you
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don't even know as the public what you're defending yourself against. I know police chiefs from all
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over. And I remember one police chief I was talking to there. They see this coming. They know how bad
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these guys are, Mark. They know what they have done to people. And they have to put out the warning
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saying, yeah, we're letting the guy out just to let you know, be on the lookout for him.
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And I'll tell you what the good chiefs do. They put surveillance people all over that person and
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they wait for them to make a little mistake and they're on them. They're on them to get them off
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the streets because they don't want to see that happen to a citizen that's under their protection.
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It could just as easily be their daughter or their wife or their sister that gets it. So the police
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are absolutely hamstrung in this, unless they've got the resources to sit on all these guys. But
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this is another thing, Mark. There's more of these people out there than you ever want to believe
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that they're not keeping under behind wraps and under supervision. There's an actual board
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that sits there, a review board, and they sit on almost, I think it's 2,000 cases a year
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of recidivist offenders who everybody knows is going to re-offend. And they sit there and try,
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well, they're not the worst. We have to let them go. Well, we're not positive. Even though
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they're pretty damn sure they're going to re-offend and they let them out. And they're
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just about everywhere. I think we have to get our legislatures back together and be able to take
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these sexual offenders. And if they cannot control themselves, and it's so clear that a police chief
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can tell you they're going to re-offend and they get them the next little while, they got to put them
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under lock and key. Let's do an infrastructure project, Mark Carney, and put a mega prison up in
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the Arctic North. And let's put them there, give them their treatment and wait until they can deal
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with their impulse control. I don't want to see someone's daughter get tackled by one of these
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guys and sexually abused by one of these guys because the state didn't decide that they wanted
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to take the time to protect you. If you can protect your home, Mark, you should be able to
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protect your daughter. Absolutely. Ross McLean, how do people get in touch with you and consume your
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content online? Best place to catch me is on McLean Chronicles on YouTube or on X, Mark.
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Thank you, Ross. Appreciate it. Be safe. All right, my friends, if you enjoyed this show,
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