Mr. Chair, this is a technical amendment. It would expand the application of the sexual activity evidence regime, which prohibits the use of evidence regarding a complainant's past sexual activity to support the “twin myth” example that the complainant was more likely to have consented to the sexual activity at issue or that they are less worthy of belief in sexual offence trials to cases involving an offence under any act of Parliament that is of sexual nature or committed for a sexual purpose and not just a Criminal Code offence that is of a sexual nature or committed for sexual purpose.
This amendment would align the National Defence Act and the Criminal Code as contemplated by amendment G-8 to amend clause 31.