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Modern Ways to Go to Jail
Loitering in the Park
Section 179 of the Criminal Code makes it a criminal offence to "loiter" in or near a school ground, playground, public park or bathing area, if you have ever been convicted of one of a specified list of offences (the whole range of sexual assault, sexual touching and indecency). "Loiter" means stand idly around, hang around, linger, tarry, saunter, delay or dawdle, with no proof of bad intent required. So does anyone with a sexual criminal record who goes to walk or sit innocently in a park or on the beach risk arrest and another criminal charge, with no defence available? Not any more: in 1994, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled this law unconstitutional, and of no force or effect.
Trafficking in Icing Sugar
To be convicted of trafficking under section 5 of the Narcotic Control Act, you don't have to sell narcotics. The section makes it an offence to traffic either in one of the drugs listed in the Act's schedules, "or in any substance represented or held out ... to be such a substance". This means that if you offer or sell someone a bag of icing sugar, telling them it's cocaine, you're just as guilty as if you actually sold cocaine.
Assisting Suicide
Assisted suicide is prohibited by Section 241 of the Criminal Code. Counselling a person to commit suicide, or aiding and abetting suicide, is an offence. Section 14 adds that it is no defence to a charge of murder to say that the victim was willing to die, and consented to be killed.
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