R. v. Majcher
Although the arresting officer sincerely believed Majcher conspired with PRC actors, the totality of circumstances known by July 16, 2023 consisted largely of unverified open‑source material, tenuous associations, and speculative inferences; those materials were not sufficiently credible or compelling to permit an objectively reasonable belief of a conspiracy to employ coercive threats under SOIA, and therefore the warrantless arrest violated section 9 of the Charter.
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- Warrantless arrest
- Reasonable and probable grounds
- Section 9 charter
- Search incident to arrest
- Conspiracy
- Security of information act (ss.20,22,23)