I think it is.
Every case is decided on its own, but the individual who has people, for instance, coming on to their property, stealing, destroying, or trying to take possession of their property...the individual who shows a firearm—again, it's what is reasonable under the circumstances. If somebody is trying to steal your notebook, you don't have a right to shoot that person, because that is obviously and patently unreasonable.
I get asked this on a regular basis: what is reasonable? What was the test? Was it the man on the Clatenham bus or something, whatever he thought was reasonable would be the test? We have to apply those tests. In answer to Mr. Jacob, I pointed out that most of us could figure out what's reasonable. What's reasonable in a remote community in Nunavut in terms of turning that individual...is not the same test for reasonableness if you were in downtown Ottawa.
Again, it's the appropriate language that has served us very well, and it turns on the facts of every situation.