Manitoba’s Progressive Conservatives are calling on Ottawa to amend the Criminal Code, seeking clearer legal protection for Canadians who use reasonable — even deadly — force to defend themselves or their homes from intruders.

“Manitobans are witnessing an explosion of violent crime across the province, and across the country as well,” Borderland MLA and PC justice critic Josh Guenter said Thursday. “This is one of those things everyone feels is important, to be able to have that right. This is about protecting innocent life.”

Guenter’s resolution in the legislature — which the NDP did not support Thursday — comes after a series of violent home invasions in Winnipeg. In one recent case in Garden City, a suspect forced their way into a home, stabbed a man in his 80s and assaulted a woman

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