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Originally Posted by robodog
Actually it's not just his province, it's all of canada. You can find details
here.
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Thanks.
I wasn't exactly sure whether age of consent was provincially or federally legislated, so I made sure not to misstep in what I said.
And here's an example of what I mean by being careful:
153. (1) Every person who is in a position of trust or authority towards a young person or is a person with whom the young person is in a relationship of dependency and who
(a) for a sexual purpose, touches, directly or indirectly, with a part of the body or with an object, any part of the body of the young person, or
(b) for a sexual purpose, invites, counsels or incites a young person to touch, directly or indirectly, with a part of the body or with an object, the body of any person, including the body of the person who so invites, counsels or incites and the body of the young person,
is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Definition of "young person"
(2) In this section, "young person" means a person fourteen years of age or more but under the age of eighteen years.
Now, if you want to go anywhere with her sexually, you'd want to make sure (ask the lawyer in the Tilted Living forum for example) that you wouldn't be considered to be in "a position of trust or authority" with this girl. I assume trust means something akin to being an older family member, counsellor, or something, but assumptions are not the best thing to base legal matters on.
Annnnd finally, I still say go for it. Things likely WILL change in the next year, since you are both young, and young minds are very dynamic in their perceptions on the whole.