Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Ms. Fry, for your testimony today.
I want to go over a couple of things under section 264 and then section 298, but more specifically section 299 of the code. I'd like your comments on that.
In paragraph 264(2)(b) it says “repeatedly communicating with, either directly or indirectly, the other person or anyone known to them”. There's no definition in the Criminal Code of communicating, so it's an open-ended definition. It could already mean that it could be a computer, the Internet, Twitter, Facebook, or whatever it is, because communicating is not defined.
Further to that, under section 299—and you referred to section 298, with regard to defamatory libel, but section 299 is publishing—it says:
A person publishes a libel when he
That probably needs to be amended to be “he or she”.
(a) exhibits it in public;
(b) causes it to be read or seen; or
(c) shows or delivers it, or causes it to be shown or delivered, with intent that it should be read or seen by the person whom it defames or by any other person.
Without the definition of communication, to me it would imply that this does mean the Internet, Facebook, or Twitter, because there is no definition of communication.
Can I get your response to that?