…Tonya Kent, a criminal lawyer based in Toronto, says public backlash against the charges — including from Ford — is premature given the lack of information about the case. She says some of the concerns about the charges are also erroneous.
“I’ve seen numerous comments on Twitter about how there’s no self-defence in Canada, when we fully have a section that deals with self-defence,” she said. “I think part of the public fear is a lot of the time misinformation that is passed around online about the way that the law works in Canada…