Liberals are against this. Sex at 14 is a “Canadian value”, see.
Age for sex will rise to 16, says Toews
Raising the legal age for Canadians to have sex and toughening up prison terms for gun-toting criminals will be top legislative priorities for the new Conservative government, according to Justice Minister Vic Toews.
The Manitoba MP, a former attorney general in his home province, said the Conservative government would likely pace its law-and-order agenda instead of tabling a mammoth omnibus bill that could have trouble passing as a package.
“One of the issues I would like to see brought forward as quickly as possible is the age of protection, raising that from 14 to 16, and looking at bringing in a close-in-age exemption,” Toews said.
“We don’t want to criminalize consenting sexual conduct between youth; we want to protect young people from adult sexual predators. If we look at that, for example, as a stand-alone bill, that could be done fairly quickly.”
GRITS BLOCKED MOTION
Last fall a Conservative motion to raise the age of consensual sex was defeated in a 169-100 vote. […]
Number of minutes before a brilliant liberal intellectual comments here saying that “before we know it, the age of consent will be 24 and Canada is turning into an Iranian-style theocratic state run by Christian extremists”: 5…. 4…. 3…. 2….
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