The convention in the Criminal Code is to use words that describe what we want it to achieve or the types of services without naming the services. One of the things that we did back in Bill C-13—I don't remember which parliament that was—was to remove the word “telegraph” from one of the provisions in the Criminal Code, because no one uses a telegraph anymore. We replaced it with something akin to “means of telecommunication”, which covers any sort of mode of telecommunication.
This is what we generally mean when we talk about future-proofing. We use general language that actually gets to the heart of the criminal behaviour, and we do not specify the mode used to accomplish it.
