From my own experience of speaking to people who own businesses, I think what they need from the government is a framework that has flexibility and a bit more trust. In my view, it's better to have flexible legislation and leave it to individual judges. Also, it is better to have legislation that sends a message not only to people making the arrest, but also to provincial governments, provincial attorneys general, and police officers that we support store owners and their fundamental rights. When you deal with them, if there is any incident, you should bear in mind that their right to defend their property is to be respected. I hope that is what Bill C-26 will start to do. It has to be flexible. You can't restrict it to any particular situation. It won't work and it's not fair.
On February 28th, 2012. See this statement in context.