Thank you so much for your question.
I think that, ultimately, parents are in the lives of their children for a reason, and their children have been given to them for a reason. Do I think that a five-year-old can accurately give consent to a practice such as this? I can tell you that when I was five years old, I was more interested in playing with sand and toys, and making wasps fight each other in containers. There's not a whole lot that I was considering when I was five years old. It was when I grew older. Having the freedom, as a teenager, to choose the type of support and counselling I wanted was incredibly beneficial.
My concern is that if Canada believes that, at 16 years old, I can consent to having sex with whomever I want, why don't they—