I'm going to go back and say again that I'm not asking that we add new pieces to the Criminal Code that will create criminal offences that are not already there. These are criminal offences that are already there.
I would like to read to you subsection 372(1) of the code, which says:
Every one who, with intent to injure or alarm any person, conveys or causes or procures to be conveyed by letter, telegram, telephone, cable, radio or otherwise information that he knows is false is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.
We're not just talking about simple cyberbullying. There is a place when cyberbullying crosses to become “false messages”, which is the section I'm reading from. The point is that if it's been clearly stated what are the modes of communication....
It says “or otherwise”, and some people are interpreting it to not mean computers, while others may say, yes, it does mean computers. The point is that it's not clear, and my bill is to clarify those criminal elements.
I'm not talking about, you know, saying that Dany Morin has a sore throat and can't speak, and putting that on social media.