Tories move to raise age of consent

[MrPrax]

Tories move to raise age of consent

The federal government tabled legislation Thursday raising Canada's age of consent for the first time in more than a century, saying it wants to prevent adults from preying sexually on young people without criminalizing teen romances.

The change, if passed, will increase the age at which a Canadian can legally have sex to 16 from 14.

The law was last revised in 1890, when the age of consent was raised from 12.

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The Conservatives had promised to introduce legislation increasing the age of consent since taking office in February.

The move has been hailed by police and child advocacy groups as a means of helping prevent adults from preying on children particularly in the age of the Internet.

Globe

Yeah...one of the big issues facing Canada today :eyes:
PROS: every other country does it without any problem
CONS: ain't broke (and no evidence that it is, if you notice), so no need to fix it

Let the Games Begin...

[Bassic]

1. Plus, it's fucking useless anyway.

They say it's meant to stop pedophiles. Newsflash dumbass, that's already illegal and that's not stopping them. This is just a token bone thrown to their neo-con base.

[Posteritatis]

2. Ever so brilliant

So he's planning to combat child predators by changing the law in such a way as to define more people as child predators. Uhhh, yeah! Let's play Spot the Flaw!

A couple of legal folks (I'm annoyed that I forget names and places; I think they were law profs in Quebec) were talking about this as "legislative demagoguery" - passing a bunch of laws on hot-button issues like age of consent and street racing, even though the existing laws handle these things perfectly (particularly the latter). The result is that nothing actually changes, but it feels like he's engaging in reform.

[hopeisaplace]

3. "let's play spot the flaw" LMAO!

loved that. thanks.