Know Your Rights: Do you have to show ID to the police?

Lawyer Davin Charney, gives an overview of the law in Canada.

Produced for the Centre for Police Accountability (C4PA).

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Useful law:

R v Honoroski 2003 ABPC http://canlii.ca/t/57jz

R v Moore 1979 SCC http://canlii.ca/t/1z76c

Of course problems arise when the police threaten to spuriously bring a charge against you, as happened in the case of Byron Sonne. Now, I’m not a lawyer, but it seems to me that since the police got away with using this ruse against >Byron Sonne, isn’t the the effect that any police officer can now threaten or even lay frivolous charges against any citizen and force an identification?

What I wonder is if Canadians have been stripped of this right? — laurelrusswurm