Whenever force, or the threat of force, coincides with taking property or attempting to take property from another person, a robbery allegation can be made.
According to the Criminal Code of Canada, one commits robbery in the following circumstances:
steals, and for the purpose of extorting whatever is stolen or to prevent or overcome resistance to the stealing, uses violence or threats of violence to a person or property;
steals from any person and, at the time he steals or immediately before or immediately thereafter, wounds, beats, strikes or uses any personal violence to that person;
assaults any person with intent to steal from him; or
steals from any person while armed with an offensive weapon or imitation thereof