Number one, 72 in 100,000 refers to common law and married. If we're talking specifically about married individuals, in the Yukon, for example, as a territory, no one under the age of 16 can ever get married. The age for marriage in the Yukon is 16. And as for the number of 15-year-olds, for example, who are legally married, according to Statistics Canada, in 2005, in all of Canada one male and four females were married. In jurisdictions like the Yukon, where the age is 16, no one under the age of 16 is legally married in the Yukon.
I think where there is a little discrepancy in the number is that this is the number of married; the 72 in 100,000 refers to people who would also be considered common law. So that's another basket of individuals, all of whom, I should say, are in a transitional exemption under Bill C-22. Anyone in that situation when this bill comes into force will continue to be allowed to be in that situation, but going forward, this bill sets the age of sexual consent at 16, with that five-year close-in-age exemption.
So if someone under 16 wants to get married, in this bill they're not prohibited from doing so. If they're allowed in their province to get married at under 16 in some exceptional circumstance or otherwise, this bill doesn't prevent them from doing that. But it does have a five-year close-in-age exemption. If it's within the five-year close-in-age exemption, there would not be any criminal fallout from that relationship.