Canadian Law?

What on earth is going on in Ontario?
Wittig has heard that a Chinese fellow who owns a store in Ontario was arrested when he caught and held onto a shoplifter who was stealing from his store. The store owner held the thief until the police arrived and then the police promptly arrested the owner for kidnapping the shoplifter!!!.

I can remember many years ago when muy father did his jury service in England, how he was on the jury when a case came up about a burglar who had been hit over the head by the owner of a house when the owner found the burglar filling a sack with his silver collection, having broken a window to get into the dining room. When the police arrived they arrested the burglar and took a statment from the ownner.

In court, the burglar was sentenced to imprisonment and the owner was congratulated by the judge, but warned that if it happened again, he was to be sure that he did not accidently, or otherwise, kill the burglar.

When are the police over here going to start treating innocent people, let alone people who help them, as being innocent until proven guilty?

How much more pleasant it would have been had the police simply taken a statement from theChinese owner and thanked him for his help in arresting the shoplifter.