Legal Discussions Canada

That’s not wrong, but I feel like people take those kinds of comments to either extreme and tend to skip right over the reasonable middle ground. The thing about force is there’s an expectation that one uses a reasonable level of force to suit the situation, in some cases this can mean use of lethal force, and in other cases this can mean simply removing oneself from the situation. There’s even been weird cases where one party was found to be justified in the use of force, and as the altercation progressed the second party was found to be justified in further use of force against the first party due to the first parties force being excessive for the situation.

The biggest difference between Canada’s self defence regulations and those present in some states is that some states allow certain situations like trespassing or break and enter to be considered enough of a threat to respond with lethal force. Canada’s laws usually require an articulation of an imminent threat.