Can the police pull me over for any reason in Canada

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[ihatefindingagoodnam]

So in other words they can pull you over for no reason as long as they lie and come up with one. Sounds about right actually.

[AC-gwqu]

So they can't pull you over for no reason but they can pull you over for any reason. Got it.

[douce]

The thing about Canada is there is a back door open that for every law there is a law that says you have no rights.

[larky]

When I was a teenager I was coming home from work at night and a cop pulled me over and he searched my vehicle. I was young and didn't know any better so I let him do it without objecting and demanding he give me a reason why. Obviously it was because I was young and driving around at night. This cop was fishing for a crime and I should have told him to pound gravel and get out of my face but there were no cell phones back then so it would have been his word against mine and it would have ended badly for me if I resisted.

[jeffaharris]

I got pulled over in NB. He didn't ask for any ID. He only asked if I was drinking. I said "No". He said, "Great, have a good night."

[billrea]

I disagree with the " unsafe vehicle " scenario because a police officer is NOT an A classed licenced auto mechanic to make such a call !

[Blue-xbxr]

Yep in Canada they do lie. Bottom line keep your distance and pray

[BlueSky-ebru]

In 1973 a RCMP Officer out right lied to me . I have never trusted the RCMP since then .
It haunts me to this day wondering how many people went to prison because of his lies .

[Bizzair]

That's why dash cams are so important now. When you're pulled over and the officer says "oh you were swerving quite a bit" - you say ok well.my driving is being recorded, so good luck justifying that in court. If he cant justify that the entire case is thrown out after that moment.

[jtettes]

Sounds like a bunch of bs to me!! So cops can pull us over just to check our license??
That's so messed up!!

[eddielitter]

Our charter in Canada as been destroyed by Turdo.

[Tooltek]

I got pulled in Manitoba, I seen the cop rip a U-turn and follow me for roughly 15 blocks. When I asked why I was being pulled over the cops reasoning was "you came to a complete stop at a stop sign and we thought that was suspicious, and when we pulled up beside you at the red light you didn't acknowledged me". I was accused of driving under the influence of alcohol, I had to demand I be breathalyzed, which I was refused, 4 extra squad cars showed up over the course of this, and thankfully one of the cops that showed up, allowed me to breathlyze and I was proven sober and allowed to leave after a thorough search of my vehicle while I was under arrest for DWI.

[lifefordummies]

I have been profiled SO MANY TIMES in Newfoundland as a young male driver. I've been pulled over probably between 10 and 20 times in my life and all of them were when I was younger and here is the thing. I have never gotten a ticket or a warning in my life. It was always "you rolled that stop sign" "i couldn't see your sticker" "we got a call about a car that matches..." and that kinda stuff. And every time the officer literally sticks his head in to talk to me to maximize what he can see and smell. Nearly every time this happened I was asked to get out so they could search the car. at least once they said it was because they could "smell drugs" when there were none ever there. They wouldn't even specify which drugs they claimed to smell. They may as well just have said "I don't like the look of ya so I wanna search your car"

I often laugh about it now, but it still angers me a little. I used to be a young guy driving around in junk and getting pulled over all the time. Now I'm a bit older and still driving around in junk, but don't get pulled over anymore. What changed?" I've been pulled over once this past decade and it was because i rolled a stop sign in a small town on my way to check the mail and it was the first time I was pulled over where I wasn't asked to get out so they could search it. I was actually surprized, like I was expecting it to just be part of the whole ruitine.

I also remember being a preteen and a teen walking around the neighbourhood on a Friday and Saturday night and having cops pull up and ask us our names. They would always run our names. I have no idea if they were allowed to randomly just do that for no reason. I they would talk into the radio in that radio language as soon as you said your name. Wiskey Tango Foxtrot. over.

[edbouman]

How can the police pull you over for a safety check of your vehicle, when they are not certified mechanics, nor do they carry the proper tools to do a safety check!

[loveworks]

Thanks for the vid. I refer to the RCMP as the failing RCMP because I have seen how they pick and choose what infractions and crimes they will investigate. It's at each officers discretion which is concerning. Then, when they show up other variables take over like who do they know n stuff. They have too much individual power and mandatory body cams need to be instated right now. At least then the citizen has a recourse against bad or useless cops.

[zaklaw]

I didn’t know about the ‘safety check’ reason.

[havenbastion]

Tyrants can do whatever they want. It's up to them whether they want to right it into law.

[UseroneGaming]

“A police officer is (legally?) entitled to pull over your vehicle for just a safety check.”

That sounds to me like, if that’s true, any officer, corrupt or not, can stop any innocent civilian if they just truthfully or falsely claim it’s a “safety check.”

Under the highway act a “safety check” doesn’t require any form of observation of a crime to be performed? Sounds absurd.

[jaytc]

"The police can't pull you over for no reason."
Well, THAT'S never going to happen. They're not stupid. They'll come up with a reason. So that's no help whatsoever.

[qhilliq]

I was just walking down the street, just now, as a police car pulled up and the lady officer had asked me where I was going and what I was doing (I was on my way home with beer from a gas station) asked my name, date of birth etc, and drove off laughing cause I spoke English and did not have a French name.. Gotta love Quebec right?