r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • May 23 '22

Weekly Politics Thread

Please post all your Politics or Ban-related ideas, initiatives, comments, suggestions, news articles, and recommendations in this thread. Unless new information is published in the media, recurring articles related to the gov'ts ***possible*** legislation are to be posted here. These threads will be weekly, until it's necessary for another per-week.

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u/April_Ethereal May 29 '22

The SCC ruling with respect to extreme intoxication (to the point of automatism) was that you are allowed to claim that as a defense, not that it was a lawful excuse. Other laws had previously disallowed this when the consumption of the intoxicating substance was wilful.

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u/April_Ethereal May 29 '22

The narrow allowances of that defense and the extremely high burden of proof makes it very unlikely for it to be misused successfully as you're suggesting it will be.