Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The Criminal Code is of particular interest to me. In its ruling, the Supreme Court mentions two provisions in particular: paragraph 241(b), and section 14.
I did some reading as a layperson. I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.
I noted that section 226 refers to hastening someone's death.
Further down, in section 228, it talks about “influence on the mind”. It's about influencing a person. I don't know if that means counselling. It says that the exemption “does not apply where a person causes the death of a child or sick person by wilfully frightening him.” This was all a revelation to me.
In subsection 231(3), it's like a contract:
Without limiting the generality of subsection (2), murder is planned and deliberate when it is committed pursuant to an arrangement under which money or anything of value passes or is intended to pass from one person to another,
Are there other clauses that we should be concerned about and looking at that could be called into question and in fact challenged in subsequent court challenges?