Thank you very much, Minister.
My problem is with the concept of consenting adults when it comes to conversion therapy because we have some very well-established legal principles that some things that are harmful cannot be consented to. A person cannot consent to being wounded or physically assaulted. A person cannot consent to a fight club, for instance.
In my mind, and I think that of many experts, conversion therapy amounts to an assault. If we leave what are called “consenting adults” out of the bill, I guess I would like to suggest an amendment that we specify very clearly in the bill all the various forms of lack of consent, or how we understand consent, as we have done in other parts of the Criminal Code.