Ms. Gillian Blackell at the Citizenship and Immigration Committee

On March 31st, 2015. See this statement in context.

March 31st, 2015 / 9:50 a.m.

Senior Counsel, Family, Children and Youth Sector, Department of Justice

Thank you.

We have had some discussions with the provinces and territories about this issue. They've consulted their vital statistics and have looked at marriages that were registered in the provinces and territories, and the ages, over the past decade or so. There certainly are marriages under the age of 16, including 15-year-olds. In the case of Saskatchewan, there were two marriages at age 14 that were registered. There were none registered below that age, but these are still fairly young for these times.

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