A strong majority of Canadians feel they have the right to defend their home against intruders — and more than half say they don’t always feel safe in their neighbourhoods and that the justice system is working against their interests, new polling shows.

“I don’t think that’s a healthy sentiment in Canada if over half don’t really feel the justice system is working in their interest,” Andrew Enns, Leger’s executive vice-president, said Tuesday about the findings of a new national Postmedia-Leger poll.

The pollster said that could lead to situations where people say, “the law doesn’t respect me, why should I respect the law?”

Eighty-seven per cent of respondents sided with using reasonable force against an intruder. In Manitoba and Saskatchewan, as well as among Canadians aged 55 and up,

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