Les motifs raisonnables d'un policier arrêtant un suspect doivent s'apprécier au moment de l'arrestation et la commission de l'infraction n'a pas à être la seule inférence possible selon les informations portées à sa connaissance

R v Maurer, 2024 SKCA 20

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[18]           Nonetheless, the evidence in the sexual assault trial, even though it preceded the trial on the arrest-related charges, does not assist in the evaluation of the lawfulness of Mr. Maurer’s arrest. That is because s. 495(1)(a) is satisfied when the police establish that the information at their disposal at the time of arrest was rationally capable of supporting the inference that the arrested person had committed an indictable offence. They do not have to be satisfied that it is the only reasonable inference to be drawn from the available information—which is to say that they do not have to dispel the reasonableness of exculpatory inferences before arresting under the authority of s. 495(1)(a) (R v Santos at para 29(d); R v Gunn, 2012 SKCA 80 at para 22, 291 CCC (3d) 265).