Clearly, in my humble opinion, abduction was created to recognize the problems we have when couples separate and a child is taken by either parent and/or legal guardian against a court order that recognizes that one parent or the other has custody whether it be sole or joint. As a result of that, we need to be able to deal with that from the perspective of the Criminal Code.
What I don't understand is where section 281 came from, as I said before, because it seems to have just mirrored section 279 of the Criminal Code, except we don't want to call a spade a spade. When young children are taken by someone other than their parent, guardian, or the person who has legal authority over them, that is kidnapping. That is strictly what it is. It's not abduction; it's kidnapping.