Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
The purpose of NDP-7 is quite simple. It's to replace the wording “against the person’s will”, which is in the current bill, with “without the person's consent”.
In the Criminal Code, “consent” is a much more well-established concept. We know the meaning of it and we know how it's applied. I personally am not familiar with any other part of the Criminal Code that uses “against the person's will”. This really makes the language much more standard in terms of what already exists in the Criminal Code. It would allow specifying in the future—I have amendment NDP-8—what consent is, but even without further amendment, it would place this clearly in an established realm of law.
Thank you.