I'm trying to suggest that the basic rules around criminal liability ought to be in our Criminal Code. They are implicit in section 9 of the Criminal Code, which abolishes common-law crime. It is implicit within the charter, which guarantees the rule of law and the principle of legality, which is that the law has to be knowable in advance. When for essentially half of criminal law, you don't tell people what the rules are, it's not knowable in advance.
On October 30th, 2017. See this statement in context.