Juno News - Doug Ford PRAISES homeowner for shooting intruder

00:00:00.000 Well, the tide may be turning against the liberal government's push to criminalize those who defend

00:00:10.000 themselves in their own home against criminals. Police in Vaughan, Ontario have decided not to

00:00:16.120 charge a homeowner who shot a suspect during a recent break-in. In this security video,

00:00:22.160 we see the suspects breaking into the home and then leaving after one of them had been shot.

00:00:30.000 Police! Police!

00:00:47.000 Now here is Acting Chief Cecile Hammond with details of what happened.

00:00:51.000 Just before 1am, we responded to a home invasion at a residence in the area of Carville Woods Circle

00:00:57.000 Circle in Crimson Forest Drive in the city of Vaughan. Multiple suspects armed with at least

00:01:03.140 one firearm forced their way into the residence. An occupant of the home accessed a legally owned

00:01:10.260 and properly stored firearm and discharged it towards the suspects. The suspects were seen

00:01:16.780 getting into a black pickup truck which fled the scene before police arrived. The occupants of the

00:01:24.060 home were not physically injured police went on to say that the homeowner was

00:01:28.740 justified in this case and will not face charges we recognize that in situations

00:01:34.800 involving armed intruders the immediate threat to life is paramount as every

00:01:42.000 situation is unique no one piece of advice fits all circumstances your first

00:01:48.860 priority is to safeguard yourself and your family this includes taking steps

00:01:55.160 to seek to seek a secure location and calling 9-1-1 immediately the criminal

00:02:01.280 code allows for every person to use reasonable force to protect themselves

00:02:05.420 and their family only when necessary now Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he

00:02:11.420 applauds the hallmarker for shooting the suspect congratulations yeah I'm glad

00:02:16.700 you shot the guy teach us the rest of these robbers and i encourage everyone out there that's 1.00

00:02:20.940 a legal gun owner someone's going to come in and try to kill you and kill your family remember it 0.99

00:02:27.100 was just last week uh jamie one guy got shot because he was trying to protect his kids well 0.99

00:02:32.300 you know these guys they need to be shot as far as i'm concerned you're coming through the front

00:02:37.180 door to hurt your family i'll never forget the the one family that the man was protecting his 0.99

00:02:43.420 four-year-old kid and his child I should say and there was three other children there and his wife 0.99

00:02:49.660 and they assassinated him right in front of his kids like these ruthless like they need to rot 0.97

00:02:56.620 in jail for the rest of their lives congratulations for shooting this guy should have shot him a couple 0.96

00:03:02.140 more times as far as I'm concerned but liberals urge a more cautious approach when it comes to

00:03:07.660 to home defense because after all, accidents can happen.

00:03:11.420 Where innocent victims, people who are mistakenly going

00:03:17.720 to the wrong house to pick up their little brother,

00:03:21.160 there have been many cases that I could list

00:03:24.840 that I've looked into and we don't want to create a system

00:03:28.560 where people feel that they have the right

00:03:34.160 to shoot and kill somebody.

00:03:36.720 The Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights says the decision not to charge the homeowner in Vaughan

00:03:41.300 is a sign both police and the public have had enough.

00:03:45.520 Tracy Wilson of the CCFR says the government's anti-gun policies,

00:03:50.160 including the buyback program, are pushing more people, including women,

00:03:54.120 to apply for gun ownership.

00:03:56.220 Our guest today is Tracy Wilson, who joins us from Ottawa.

00:03:59.360 She is vice president at the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights.

00:04:03.720 Welcome, Tracy.

00:04:04.920 Thanks, Mark. Nice to be here.

00:04:06.720 Well, you saw this incident, you heard about it, in Vaughan, very serious, where someone had a break in at their home.

00:04:15.220 We saw a security video.

00:04:17.680 Three people barged in in the middle of the night, and one of them ended up getting shot.

00:04:24.720 Three of them left.

00:04:26.400 The one who was injured ended up in hospital, and he faces charges.

00:04:30.300 And now police in Vaughan have decided that in this incident, the homeowner should not be charged.

00:04:37.900 We've seen other incidents in which homeowners have been charged in cases where they attempt to defend themselves at home.

00:04:44.980 It's been very controversial.

00:04:46.560 What do you make of this incident here?

00:04:49.680 Well, I feel that the tide is sort of changing.

00:04:52.560 I mean, Canadians have always had the right to defend their life against, you know, threat of death or grievous bodily harm.

00:05:00.980 However, the process is usually the punishment.

00:05:03.760 And in so doing something that would protect your life, like killing an intruder or even injuring one,

00:05:10.020 you find yourself at the mercy of the full wrath of the Canadian justice system.

00:05:15.880 and we've seen this many times over where people have defended themselves and of course end up

00:05:22.180 being the victim of the justice or the legal system I should call it there is no justice but

00:05:27.120 of the legal system so in this instance I find the language coming out of law enforcement very

00:05:32.580 interesting that they not only clarified that he was a legal firearms owner but that his firearms

00:05:37.960 were stored correctly so yeah I you know I I would like us to live in a society where we don't have

00:05:45.140 worry about these things but here we are reality rears its ugly head does it represent a sea change

00:05:51.620 um maybe the idea that the tide is turning because both the police and homeowners have

00:05:59.860 had enough they're just fed up with the break-ins oh absolutely i mean law enforcement has been clear

00:06:06.260 you've had a lot of opposition to liberal bills c5 and c75 they've been very critical of that

00:06:12.900 critical of the you know the gun grab um you know we've got the soft on crime tough on gun owner

00:06:19.540 government um and law enforcement is basically at their mercy they do the hard work of getting

00:06:25.620 these guys off the streets and into jail cells uh only for them to be turned back out so i think uh

00:06:33.220 i do think it is a definite uh switch in tone from law enforcement to see them just immediately

00:06:38.180 say, nope, this guy's good to go. And, you know, he's not going to have to sell his house and ruin

00:06:43.600 his life to defend himself in court. So, yeah, it's a good day for the good guys.

00:06:50.060 Yeah. And Doug Ford, to his credit, came out and was uncompromising, suggesting that it was the

00:06:56.840 right thing to do. He congratulated the homeowner and said that the bad guy should have been shot 0.89

00:07:02.340 more often more time yeah yeah you know duck ford is always really funny in front of a camera he

00:07:08.820 gets riled up uh but i i think a lot of ontarians and canadians in general share his sentiment

00:07:15.300 we're sick and tired of seeing these uh these videos of these armed home invasions and look

00:07:20.660 you know to be fair most people will never go through that experience in their life but for

00:07:25.700 everybody who has they didn't think they would either right and at that critical moment when

00:07:31.140 you know the your future the future of your family can change in the blink of an eye i i think that

00:07:38.500 um it's incumbent on us as human beings it's your most most basic human right to defend your life

00:07:45.140 and those uh and the lives of those in your care so yeah i like seeing doug get a little riled up

00:07:51.060 over it there's things he can do to to ensure that this continues um but you know that remains yet to

00:07:57.700 to be seen.

00:07:58.700 The liberals have a different view on this, as you know.

00:08:01.700 They say, well, it's not appropriate.

00:08:05.960 The level of force that you use has to be commensurate with the threat.

00:08:09.200 And that's, in fact, one of the things that police said was these three were armed.

00:08:12.820 But, I mean, at the end of the day, I mean, in the heat of battle, in the fog of war,

00:08:17.580 you're just defending yourself any way you can.

00:08:19.480 You don't know if these people are armed unless they're actually holding a firearm right in

00:08:23.580 front of you.

00:08:24.580 Yeah.

00:08:25.580 I mean-

00:08:26.580 that, to me, I think you have to give the benefit of the doubt to the homeowner.

00:08:31.540 Of course, of course.

00:08:33.940 Shocked in the middle of the night by attackers. You don't know which end is up. And then,

00:08:39.800 you know, if you happen to kill somebody in the commission of this

00:08:43.840 attack on your home, you're the one who ends up being charged. It's just insane. 0.58

00:08:49.800 Like it's everybody's worst nightmare, right? You think it's three or four in the morning,

00:08:54.060 you're awoken to the sound of your door being breached or glass breaking and armed thugs

00:09:00.240 running through your home you've got maybe your wife there or your husband your children your

00:09:05.060 grandchildren who knows and that instant of terror to be able to you know look see in the dark to be

00:09:12.800 able to make that split second decision it's it's extremely difficult there's one way to completely

00:09:19.220 avoid this entire situation and it's for thugs to stop breaking into the homes of law-abiding

00:09:23.840 Canadians. You know, just saying. Yeah, I mean, it's just bizarre. It just seems like the liberals

00:09:29.400 insisted to take the side of the criminal over the victims of crime. It's just bizarre. Now you've

00:09:35.760 had Ruby Sohota, who's a member of Parliament for Brampton, liberal, about the dangers of defending

00:09:43.320 your own home. Listen to this. Where innocent victims, people who are, you know, mistakenly

00:09:51.540 going to the wrong house to pick up their little brother. There have been many cases that I could

00:09:57.440 list that I've looked into. And we don't want to create a system where people feel that they have

00:10:06.980 the right to shoot and kill somebody. Okay. I don't know what planet she's on or what country 0.86

00:10:16.100 she's living in. But look, if your next door neighbor kicks your door in at four o'clock in

00:10:21.820 the morning looking for their little brother, you probably have a bigger problem. That doesn't

00:10:26.700 happen. What she's talking about is completely ridiculous. And never forget, all these people 0.99

00:10:31.860 who are opposed to the mere suggestion that plebs like you and I should be able to protect our lives

00:10:38.160 are constantly surrounded by people with guns to protect theirs. So she's ridiculous. And don't 0.99

00:10:45.880 forget she's the secretary of state for combating crime you know was she put in that role to protect

00:10:51.900 the criminals or to protect good law-abiding Canadians yeah I mean I think they're just

00:10:57.420 looking for any incident you know that may have happened in the United States or anywhere in the

00:11:03.560 world where somebody happened to walk in and somebody thought that it was a home invader and

00:11:08.900 ended up dead and well there you go we can't allow you to defend yourself because of this incident

00:11:13.740 that took place in whatever Tennessee she'd be tweeting out thoughts and prayers if you know if 0.98

00:11:20.900 you had one of these armed home invasions where they come in and they you know kill a man in front

00:11:26.220 of his four-year-old child or something she she'd be the first one to tweet out thoughts and prayers

00:11:30.400 but do absolutely nothing to prevent it so anything that comes out of her mouth is completely

00:11:34.800 meaningless now the number of people applying for gun ownership has surged over the last five years

00:11:39.980 I've seen the numbers and all that in spite of government efforts to essentially blame legal

00:11:45.380 firearm owners for crime.

00:11:48.100 They've done this by pointing to the crime rate and saying, well, this is how we're going

00:11:52.340 to deal with it.

00:11:53.340 We're going to take firearms away from legal firearms owners rather than look for the real 0.55

00:11:57.300 reasons why there's been an explosion in crime, like their own bail policies.

00:12:01.940 Right.

00:12:02.940 Talk about this because there's more interest in owning a firearm.

00:12:07.400 I think before our interview, you mentioned there's been more guns owned by Canadians now

00:12:12.780 than ever before, and women in particular are showing interest in getting a firearm, correct?

00:12:19.360 Yeah, that's exactly right.

00:12:20.900 So Canada is actually the seventh most armed nation in the world, and we have never owned

00:12:25.980 more guns in this country than we do now, which is funny despite or possibly in spite

00:12:32.240 of the very unfriendly anti-gun liberal government that we've lived under for 11 years. Justin Trudeau

00:12:38.720 was actually probably Canada's number one top firearm seller you know in history. The run on

00:12:46.320 guns as we would call it has happened repeatedly under his leadership. Now I belong to a lot of

00:12:54.320 different Facebook groups. I have interests outside guns believe it or not but I'm in a lot of these

00:12:58.860 community groups, like the Ottawa Moms Group and, you know, Orleans Mom Groups and stuff like this.

00:13:06.440 And the number of posts that are up there from just your average normie suburban soccer mom

00:13:13.560 who's looking to get armed up because she's no longer feeling safe is absolutely mind-blowing.

00:13:19.600 We're hosting ladies range days across the country, and they are literally selling out

00:13:24.420 within minutes and i'm talking 80 or 100 spots in a small town uh range day for women and it's 0.99

00:13:32.420 just sold out instantly like we literally can't keep up with it so yeah the the um they've had

00:13:38.500 the exact opposite effect from what they were planning to try and do which was eliminate the

00:13:43.380 shooting sports in canada but they're not stopping no they're not buyback program continues i guess

00:13:51.300 I guess it's Harry Anandas-Angry.

00:13:53.960 It's his department.

00:13:55.760 Yeah, that's right.

00:13:56.820 He's the public safety minister.

00:13:58.460 But he even admitted, we've got the leaked audio that I leaked out a few months back, you'll remember.

00:14:03.580 And he even said that if they had this to do over again, they would take a different route.

00:14:07.960 And that this isn't going to solve crime.

00:14:10.040 And they're doing it strictly for political votes in Quebec.

00:14:15.220 So the minister doesn't even believe in his own program.

00:14:18.760 This would be a perfect time for the Carney government to move a little more to the middle and make that pragmatic decision that he's going to, you know, take the billion dollars that he is now wasting, chasing around licensed gun owners and their legally acquired firearms, and instead focus that on preventative measures to stop some of the crime, violence and illicit gun smuggling that we're seeing all over the country.

00:14:43.560 Well, they seem to have it in for free speech as well and gun ownership.

00:14:50.080 So this is the same type of thing we've seen over and over again from this government.

00:14:55.700 They don't like freedom of speech much and they don't like firearms ownership.

00:15:00.660 So they're targeting both of those, as we've seen through a host of different censorship-related pieces of legislation that they have tabled.

00:15:09.880 So it's dangerous.

00:15:11.260 And I don't know if it's just who they are and they just can't help themselves because it just seems like every time these guys get a mandate of some kind, they come after you guys.

00:15:22.320 And so they banned, was it 1,500 firearms that they banned?

00:15:26.620 No, we're well over 2,000 models and variants now.

00:15:30.640 And they even said that they would continue to ban guns.

00:15:33.680 When they announced the rollout of the buyback, which is their confiscation program, it was the Minister for Public Safety, the Secretary of State for Nature, Natalie Provost, who also happens to be an anti-gun lobbyist, and the Quebec Public Safety Minister.

00:15:50.200 and the Quebec public safety minister, he said it in French, but, um, you know, I, I can understand

00:15:55.920 what he's saying. And he said that if you do participate in the buyback program and you are

00:16:00.780 one of the lucky ones who maybe gets a few pennies for your very expensive firearms, don't go out and

00:16:06.740 use that money to buy another gun, which was the entire purpose for it, uh, because they're going

00:16:11.040 to ban those too. So they've threatened to ban the SKS and anything else that one of the criteria

00:16:17.240 for banning is that it is popular. So, you know, it's, it's a catch 22. You're never going to please

00:16:23.280 these people. They're never going to quit. And therefore we have no choice, but to keep fighting

00:16:27.280 them every step of the way. Yeah. I mean, they're going to come after every pea shooter out there,

00:16:32.400 you know, going from one to the next. Clearly these are just absolute zealous when it comes

00:16:37.920 to gun ownership. But as we have seen by the numbers, it's all backfired because more people

00:16:43.320 want a firearm than ever before what's been the take up amongst your membership in terms of

00:16:48.440 handing back firearms that are now on this list of banned weapons so there's about about 2 million

00:16:56.280 individual firearms that are impacted by these gun bans and the last numbers out of public safety

00:17:01.640 were 32 000 had been uh declared by canadians so amongst our membership i would expect it to be

00:17:09.400 extremely low, but even at a national level, you're looking at about 1.7 or 2% participation.

00:17:17.640 So the gravity of the failure of this gun ban can't even be measured. It's absolutely insane.

00:17:27.580 And they just announced more funding that they're pouring into this. So now we're up over the

00:17:32.640 billion dollar mark. And they actually still haven't taken a single firearm from an individual

00:17:38.880 owner to date. So yeah, we're six years in and they've done absolutely nothing except spend a

00:17:44.900 billion dollars of taxpayer money that could have gone to actual public safety measures.

00:17:50.260 What a staggering waste of money. Unbelievable. They still come into the country illegally. 1.00

00:17:57.640 You know, that's what the criminals are using, right? I mean, what could they done to tackle

00:18:01.960 the issue at the border? Well, they've reannounced nine different times now,

00:18:07.460 the extra thousand CBSA and RCMP officers that they were supposed to hire. They have literally

00:18:14.040 been announcing that for 17 months straight and yet haven't done it yet. There were some

00:18:19.780 calculations done on the enormity of the expense of this buyback. And I mean, if you're including

00:18:25.400 all the bureaucratic costs and the administrative costs, it's about $27,000 or $25,000 per firearm.

00:18:32.500 So when you think about it, for every three guns, they could have hired another cop, you know, and they they have two million firearms that they're supposedly aiming to pick up from law abiding Canadians.

00:18:46.180 So you can do the math on that. If three equals a new law enforcement officer to prevent crime, imagine what we could have done with that. Right. So just incredible math.

00:18:58.240 And of course, you get up high enough, you got your own armed bodyguards to protect you.

00:19:02.000 so of course like just like they do yeah how do people support the canadian coalition for firearm

00:19:07.840 rights you can find us at ccfr.ca we've got a great contest going right now we're giving away

00:19:13.520 100 guns so we're doing our part to increase the firearm ownership in canada um as soon as you

00:19:19.440 click on the website that'll pop up uh we're everywhere you want to be we've got a podcast

00:19:23.840 everywhere you can see a podcast and uh we've got ccfr radio on the air our national tv show that

00:19:29.360 that airs bi-weekly on Wild TV.

00:19:32.600 All right, Gracie Wilson,

00:19:34.160 thank you so much for coming on the show.

00:19:36.080 Thanks, Mark. Have a great day.

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Juno News - March 18, 2026

Doug Ford PRAISES homeowner for shooting intruder

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