What is the common law right of a policeman to enter a home?

Canada (Federal), Canada

The following excerpt is from R. v. Landry, [1986] 1 SCR 145, 1986 CanLII 48 (SCC):

55. But no significant change in the common law right of a policeman to enter into a home took place until Eccles v. Bourque, 1974 CanLII 191 (SCC), [1975] 2 S.C.R. 739, to which I now turn. The Recent Decisions

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