What is the current state of the law in Canada on possession and control of property?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Jeyakanthan, 2021 ONSC 8250 (CanLII):
It has long been the law in Canada that there is no possession of a thing without knowledge of what that thing is. Possession and knowledge must co-exist with some act of control. Beaver v. R., [1957] S.C.R. 531, at pages 541-542, 26 C.R. 193, 118 C.C.C. 129, 1957 CanLII 14 (S.C.C.).
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