Kamloops’ mayor filed a police complaint against a reporter over a pub encounter. A criminal lawyer weighs in on whether the law sees it as assault.
“In Canada, assault is defined as the nonconsensual application of force to another person. When we think about a ‘force’, oftentimes we think about a physical action that’s made in anger or as a threat, but it’s any type of force, no matter how trivial, that can constitute an assault”
