In October of 2019 my parents (aged 75 and 76 at the time) and 9 year old nephew were the victims of an extremely violent and deadly home invasion. The perpetrator caused more than $25,000 in damages to their home. My father died two weeks after the attack never having left the hospital. Our lives are forever altered. Some of us in ways we will never be able to explain. My Mom and nephew have to live with the terror they experienced that night and the perpetrator of this heinous act gets a “fresh start” having had all charges (including assault of an officer, 2 counts of assault against my parents, resisting arrest, destruction of property to name but a few) dropped due to a defence of NON MENTAL DISORDER AUTOMATISM.
Automatism is defined as the performance of actions without conscious thought or intention. 
The action of the crown and defence councel 
disregards the fact that Isaiah Tees’ (perpetrator) automatism was induced (whether in whole or in part) by copious amounts of LSD taken VOLUNTARILY and WILLINGLY by him.
Our intent in filing this petition is to stop the use of non mental disorder automatism from being used as a defence in cases where the automatism is self induced by either drugs (illegal or prescription) or alcohol or the like.
This is not the first time this defence has been used in similar circumstances (see r. vs Sullivan 2020 https://canliiconnects.org/en/summaries/71864 )  People that intentionally consume the drugs or alcohol to be held to account for their actions, intended or not, malice or non, relating to the consumption of such. The fact that Mr. Tees gets a fresh start while our family and friends deal forever with the fallout seems unreasonable to say the least.