Thank you, Madam Chair.
You referenced my stressing the statutory interpretation principle of narrow construction of criminal legislation, but it goes beyond that. It also has to be a purposive and contextual interpretation, and that means that courts will have to look at the overall objective of the legislation, and that is to stop practices that are designed to change identity to conform with societal norms.
In cases like the one that Monsieur Fortin is describing, those principles would all be at play.
Then I would just remind the committee that we can't look at the definition in a vacuum without also looking at the corresponding offences. I believe Monsieur Fortin was referring to the proposed offence that would be causing a child to undergo conversion therapy, so that activity would also have to be proven in a case such as the one that he raised.
Thank you.