Convene and fund a national consultation on the defence of property with women’s and Aboriginal groups who have expertise in criminal defence work on behalf of Aboriginal protesters. Demonstrate federal leadership and co-ordination regarding provincial and territorial prosecutorial consultation and guidelines for the prosecution of intimate homicide and femicide and other hate-inspired killings. Identify the promotion of equality and justice and the reduction of inequality as experienced on the basis of sex, race, disability, and/or sexual orientation as the impetus for reforming all criminal law, including the defences of self- defence and provocation. In particular, the criminal law must ensure that everyone has the same duty of self-control, and must strive to accord to all, on an equal basis, the rights to self- worth and to self-preservation. Create and develop data to identify the different paradigms in which self-defensive violence is invoked and employ policy analysts to undertake a feminist, anti-racist, gay and lesbian- positive analysis of the systemic factors that should be considered in developing self-defence doctrine. Enact a duty to retreat, where it is safe to do so, for those who initiate or threaten violence or abuse. Exclude from the ordinary law of self-defence those who were exercising lawful authority and create a specific defence of self-defence for those in lawful authority that has more stringent criteria for self-defence. Draft a defence that does not differentiate between those who intend and those who do not intend to kill or seriously injure when defending themselves or another. Draft a defence that is open-ended in terms of protection of other persons, regardless of the legal relationship between the accused and the person protected. Require that an accused must actually and reasonably, consistent with a s. 15 equality analysis, believe in the need to use defensive violence and in the need to use the degree of violence invoked.

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