Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My objection to this is the same, really, as I voiced on the earlier amendment. This one is very similar in that it focuses only on the perceptions of the person being attacked, and not on the more objective assessments of all the circumstances.
Under the existing law, the court is only able to take into account the reasonable perceptions of the accused, and to me what this opens up is that unreasonable perceptions would be discarded, which I don't think meets what we're trying to do here.
This proposal, to me, raises some serious concerns, because on its face it would allow a court to consider those unreasonable perceptions in determining what is reasonable. Again, we need to have both the subjective and the objective elements, in my view, as the analysis is done and as the courts use their discretion to decide in all the circumstances what was reasonable.