The evidence that reform is needed to the Criminal Code came by way of the criminal-pandering behaviour of Daddy Dalton’s police and prosecuters who harassed a hard-working Toronto Chinese grocer in the wake of a pathetic history of failure of protecting these grocers.
National Post – Nov. 3, 2010
Reforming the law on citizen’s arrest
National Post – October 29, 2010
Judge finds David Chen not guilty; or, The Grocer Wore Grey
By Peter Kuitenbrouwer
In a cliffhanger ruling that mixed references to film noir and pulp fiction, Justice Ramez Khawly of the Ontario Court of Justice took two hours yesterday, in a court packed with 100 people, to get to his decision: David Chen, the vigilante grocer, is not guilty on all charges.
Two Members of Parliament have introduce Private Members’ Bills to strengthen the right to make citizens’ arrests. These bills were introduced by NDP MP Olivia Chow, wife of NDP leader Jack Layton (C-565), and Liberal MP Joe Volpe (C-547).
National Post – Oct. 8, 2010
‘Don’t come here again’
By Peter Kuitenbrouwer
Wang “David” Chen, the Toronto grocer charged for detaining a thief, for the first time told a packed and rapt courtroom yesterday his own version of what happened in May of 2009 at his store, the Lucky Moose Food Mart.
National Post – October 6, 2010
Ordinary citizen vs. ‘the system’
By Lorne Gunter
The same weekend that ChristianGovernance discusses gun control and how a position predicated on the Lordship of Christ requires the abolition of gun control, we see media coverage that Ontario’s paternalistic Premier, Daddy Dalton, is taking the opposite position. (Excerpts of two articles are below with links to the complete articles.) We make the case that self-defence is a much more important reason than hunting and sports shooting for decriminalizing firearm ownership. In contrast, a Saturday National Post article reports that, in a case of citizen’s arrest, the Ontario government is arguing that “a Toronto grocer’s attempt to expand citizen’s-arrest powers is akin to seeking a return to the Middle Ages when there were no police forces.”