Matthew Nathanson
Matthew Nathanson is a Vancouver criminal defence lawyer and founder of MN Law (Matthew Nathanson Law Corporation), with 25+ years of experience arguing cases at all levels of court including the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Oct 9, 2026
Richard WagnerMODERATOR
[raclement de gorge] Matthew Nathanson.
Matthew NathansonGUEST
Chief Justice and Justices, uh, I would like to summarize, if I may, what the court is being asked to do today.
Matthew NathansonGUEST
You are being asked to, firstly, either create or affirm a freestanding, uh, power of the police unconnected to any suspicion that an individual is involved in criminality.
Matthew NathansonGUEST
You are also being asked to do so on a reduced standard, a suspicion standard below the recognized standard of reasonable belief.
Matthew NathansonGUEST
And the third thing you are simultaneously being asked to do is to get away with or remove the imminence requirement.
Matthew NathansonGUEST
What is the common thread behind all of those three things? To give the police enormous new powers and to remove the guardrails.
Matthew NathansonGUEST
And we have talked extensively about, uh, police safety and public safety here, but the effect of-- the cumulative effect of those three things on individual rights, on charter rights, would be to vastly undermine them.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Matthew Nathanson.
Matthew NathansonGUEST
Uh, Chief Justice and Justices, uh, I would like to summarize, if I may, what the court is being asked to do today.
Matthew NathansonGUEST
You are being asked to, firstly, either create or affirm a freestanding, uh, power of the police unconnected to any suspicion that an individual is involved in criminality.
Matthew NathansonGUEST
You are also being asked to do so on a reduced standard, a suspicion standard below the recognized standard of reasonable belief.
Matthew NathansonGUEST
And the third thing you are simultaneously being asked to do is to get away with or remove the imminence requirement.
Matthew NathansonGUEST
What is the common thread behind all of those three things? To give the police enormous new powers and to remove the guardrails.
Matthew NathansonGUEST
And we have talked extensively about, uh, police safety and public safety here, but the effect of, the cumulative effect of those three things on individual rights, on charter rights, would be to vastly undermine them.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Thank you