Poll: More than half of Canadians worry about safety, home invasions
54 per cent of respondents "feel the justice system — the courts and the laws — is working against the interests of law-abiding citizens."
A strong majority of Canadians believe they have the right to defend their home against intruders, while more than half say they don’t generally feel like the justice system is working in their interest, new polling shows.
“I don’t think that’s a healthy sentiment in Canada,” Andrew Enns, Leger’s executive vice-president, said Tuesday about the findings of a new national Postmedia-Leger poll.
The pollster said that could lead to situations where people say, “the law doesn’t respect me, why should I respect the law?”
More than half of those polled (54 per cent) said they “feel the justice system — the courts and the laws — is working against the interests of law-abiding citizens.” Support peaked for that sentiment in British Columbia, at 59 per cent.
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