Françoise Boivin at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

I would like to talk about an issue that has been bothering me since we started studying this bill. For example, let’s look at subsection 279(1.1) that deals with kidnapping. A little further, it lists offences related to the kidnapping of a person under the age of 16 years, for example. I feel there is a lot of room for games between the Crown and the defence, in order to avoid enforcing the bill if it were passed as written.

Am I right? There is some confusion with this provision.