Madam Speaker, I would like my colleague's opinion on the defence of provocation.
I believe our justice system should be evolving and this law came into effect in the 1700s. It was so that two men of equal class could shoot each other in a duel and use an insult as defence for this murder and have the charge reduced to manslaughter.
Now this defence is used most often in spousal murders where a man will murder his wife and use the defence of provocation that he had been provoked by her to murder her.
I would like the member's opinion on whether we should be keeping something like in our justice system.