“Knowingly” speaks to the mens rea, the guilty mind element of it, so to put another phrase in when you already have that within the act makes the redundancy.
If you are accidentally doing it, you're not guilty of the offence.
On October 16th, 2018. See this statement in context.
October 16th, 2018 / 9:10 a.m.
Liberal
Chris Bittle Liberal St. Catharines, ON
“Knowingly” speaks to the mens rea, the guilty mind element of it, so to put another phrase in when you already have that within the act makes the redundancy.
If you are accidentally doing it, you're not guilty of the offence.
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