It might be of some assistance to the committee to inform the committee that the term “armed conflict” actually appears in a number of places already in the federal statute base, including: the Geneva Conventions Act; the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act; the National Defence Act; the Foreign Missions and International Organizations Act; the Foreign Enlistment Act; the Security of Information Act; the Emergencies Act; the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act; the Canada Shipping Act; and the Criminal Code.
It's a term that is very much part of Canadian law already in terms of being incorporated in the federal statute base created by acts of Parliament.