Which acts provide the legal basis for a CPO's authority to detain or arrest?

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The fundamental basis for a community peace officer’s power to detain or arrest comes from two layers: the Criminal Code of Canada, which lays out the general rules for arrest, detention, and the use of force; and provincial statutes that specifically designate certain individuals as peace officers and grant them powers in particular settings, such as health facilities and public safety contexts. The Criminal Code provides the universal authority to arrest without a warrant in appropriate circumstances and to detain someone for transfer to proper legal authorities. Provincial statutes tailor that authority to the CPO role, giving them the authority to act in health facilities and in public-safety scenarios where their duties require enforcement powers. Other acts like those governing traffic or municipal bylaws set enforcement contexts but do not, on their own, establish the broad detainment/arrest powers; nor does the Health Information Act deal with detention. So the combination of the Criminal Code provisions and the province-specific statutes that designate peace officers and grant context-specific powers best explains where a CPO’s authority to detain or arrest comes from.