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Originally Posted by nipples  um no. over power has mainly to do with the job. a clinician cant do a patient. it's conflict of interest, breach of ethics blah blah blah.
but a 20yr old or a 21yr old with a 17 year old is stat rape unless i'm mistaken. even if 2 15yr olds decide to have sex....it's basically whoever calls rape first. |
Government of Canada - Age of Consent
http://www.ageofconsent.com/canada.htm
II. Rape
With regard to the sexual interference with a minor, Section 151 states
" Every person who, for a sexual purpose, touches, directly or
indirectly, with a part of the body or with an object, any part of the
body of a person under the age of fourteen (14) years, is guilty of an
indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding
ten years or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary
conviction."
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"Subject: Age of Conssent in Canada
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 21:00:17 PDT
An addition to the information conccode. The age of consent there is
16.erning the age of conscent. The law which applies to the age of 14
is in existance everywhere except Quebec. The province of Quebec,
unlike the rest of the country, has it's own criminal
Editor: Letter received 1/23/00
In British Columbia Canada the age of consent varies in between 14-19
It varies in each case. Like if a 19 year old raped a 15 year old 18
would be used as a common no. it is really strange because the age of
consent seems to change all of the time. But 14 is correct but there
is alzo the 15-19 part..."
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Age of Consent for Sexual Activity
Are you confused about how old someone has to be before they can
consent to sexual activity in Canada? Although the criminal law has
been reformed to remove any differences between the ages of consent
for males and females and between homosexual and heterosexual sex, the
age of consent varies depending on what you are doing and who you are
doing it with.
If you are 18 years of age you can consent to all lawful sexual activity.
You can consent to sexual activity if you are 14 to 17 years of age as long as:
no relationship of trust, authority, or dependency exists;
there is no payment or offer of payment for sex;
there is no anal sex (unless you are in a legal, heterosexual marriage
with the other person).
Do not even think about having sex if you or your partner are under
14! The law prohibits touching or inviting, counselling or inciting a
person under 14 to touch, directly or indirectly, with a part of the
body or with an object, any part of the body for a sexual purpose. As
well, someone can be convicted of sexual assault of a person between
14 and under 18 if they are in a position of trust or authority or
dependency toward the person between 14 and 18 (even if the accused is
also under 18).
Whether a relationship of trust, authority or dependency exists
depends on each situation and has been interpreted by the courts very
broadly. For example, it was found to exist in one case where a man
lived in the same apartment as a 14 year old girl and her family and
he was treated by them as a member of the family. In another case a 14
year old boy of limited mental capacity "taught" a 16 year old boy of
far more severely limited mental capacity everything he knew about
sex. The law presumes there is exploitation of a young person if an
accused is in a position of trust or authority, even if the sexual
activity is truly consensual.
The Criminal Codes states it is not a defence that an accused believed
that a complainant was 18 years of age or more at the time the offence
was alleged to have been committed unless the accused took all
reasonable steps to ascertain the age of the complainant. What
"reasonable steps" are is not defined. Does this mean you should be
requesting two pieces of picture ID and a sworn declaration? Certainly
just to say that someone looked like they were 18 will not likely cut
it with a judge.
In Canada, traditional statutory rape laws have been replaced with
specific laws against a variety of sexual offenses concerning
children. For example, the Criminal Code provides that any person who,
for sexual purposes, touches any part of the body of a person under
the age of 14 is guilty of the offense of sexual interference. The
charge cannot be defended by claiming consent by the minor or mistake
concerning the age of the victim.
However, if the accused person is
between the ages of 12 and 16 and the victim is less than two years
younger than the accused and consented to the activity, it is not
considered a crime. 
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