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Child sex tourism see Child prostitution

Child sexual abuse/assault/exploitation

>>Age of consent, relationship, 9673-4, 9678-9
>>>Petitions, 277, 770, 1297, 1775, 2017, 2314, 2526, 2816, 4995
>>>Raising from 14 to 16,
>>>>Criminal charges factor, 3263
>>>>>See also Criminal Code (amdt.--prohibited sexual acts)(Bill C-291)--Hanger
>>>>o.q., 8511
>>>>Petitions, 8785, 9999
>>>Raising to 18, petitions, 3498, 3722, 4158, 5174, 5610, 5776, 6194, 6804, 7394, 7747, 8234, 8515, 8870, 9386, 9610, 9805-7, 9999, 10042
>>>Reduction to 14 in 1988, extending to homosexual activity in 1995, 9364
>>British Columbia case, three year old girl, victim, sentence, Judge Peter Vanderhoof remarks, 6841, 9390
>>Calgary, Alta. and Toronto, Ont. incidents, September/October 1996, o.q., 5375
>>Canadian child assaulted in Caribbean by Canadians, 95
>>Children under four, enhancing protection, petition, 2190
>>Commercial exploitation
>>>Eliminating, 7357
>>>Vancouver, B.C. round table, o.q., 7193
>>Criminal Code, etc., strengthening, 6496
>>>Petitions, 4267, 6966, 7523
>>Gatineau, Que., case, father forcing son to have sex with hypnotized mother, etc., 9426, 9429
>>International situation, Canadian role, United Nations Convention on the Rigts of the Child, etc., 9639
>>Outside Canada by Canadian residents, prosecuting in Canada, 1295, 4697-703
>>>Criminal Code amendments, procedural requirements, country involved requesting, provincial attorney general approving, 9406-10, 9639-42
>>>S.O. 31, 2134
>>>See also Criminal Code (amdt.--child prostitution, child sex tourism, criminal harassment and female genital mutilation)(Bill C-27); Criminal Code (amdt.--sexual exploitation of children outside Canada)(Bill C-246)
>>Prince Edward Island case, three year old girl victim, sentence, S.O. 31, 7459-60
>>Rape of 13 year old girl by 11 year old boy, Young Offenders Act factor
>>>o.q., 2939-40
>>>S.O. 31, 2936, 3079
>>Registry of sex offenders and pedophiles, establishing, 1143, 4280, 7088, 9660
>>>Canadian Police Information Centre data banks role, 1391
>>>o.q., 5375
>>>Petitions, 1297-8, 3325, 4089, 4235, 4265, 4591, 4677, 4996, 5173, 5203, 6012, 7089, 7109, 7722-3, 8316, 9089, 9514, 9610, 9999, 10145
>>>S.O. 31, 704
>>>See also Pedophile Register Act (Bill C-359)
>>Sex offenders/pedophiles
>>>Bail pending parole, prohibiting, petitions, 9514, 9610
>>>Banning from parks, playgrounds and schools, Supreme Court of Canada ruling disallowing 1144
>>>Chemical neutralization, 7088
>>>>See also Criminal Code (amdt.--chemical neutralization of pedophiles)(Bill C-360)
>>>Dangerous offenders, classifying as see Dangerous/high-risk offenders--Sex offenders, Categories
>>>Dubuc, Martin, hockey coach, case, 5119
>>>Hanging, Liberal Party candidate John Les proposing, 9405
>>>Milne, George Harvey, designated dangerous offender, parole, re-offending, National Parole Board responsibility, etc., 8167
>>>Noyes, Robert, dangerous offender, temporary release/parole eligibility, 3542, 9595
>>>Oatway, Robert, Prince George, B.C., statutory release/mandatory supervision, Toronto, Ont., 1143, 5068-9, 5074, 5121
>>>>o.q., 1171, 2254
>>>>S.O. 31, 816, 1761
>>>o.q., 5738-9
>>>Pardons, retaining criminal records on Canadian Police Information Centre computer database, 8869, 9402-3
>>>>See also Criminal Records Act (amdt.--sexual offences against children)(Bill C-382)
>>>Parole
>>>>Hearings, victims/families participation, 2050, 2052
>>>>Prohibiting in cases of serious harm, 5064
>>>Persons in trust/authority positions, previous convictions, parents right to know, amending Privacy Act, 9804
>>>>See also Privacy Act (amdt.)(Bill C-405)
>>>Protecting from, 5041
>>>>Measures, petitions, 8514, 9332-3, 9387, 10147
>>>Release into communities, 9669, 10090
>>>>Notification of communities, 9660
>>>>>o.q., 5246
>>>>>Petitions, 5203, 7892
>>>Second offences, charges/convictions, prohibiting bail or parole, petitions, 6068, 6709-10, 9610
>>>Sentences,
>>>>Increasing
>>>>>Belgian movement, relationship, 5523
>>>>>Citizens Against Sexual Abuse of Children petition, S.O. 31, 7459-60
>>>>Life imprisonment without parole for 25 years, 9225
>>>>>S.O. 31, 9876
>>>>>See also Criminal Code (amdt.--penalties for sexual offences involving children)(Bill C-391)
>>>>Mandatory five years, petition, 9089
>>>>See also Child sexual abuse/assault/exploitation--British Columbia case--Prince Edward Island case--Sex offenders/pedophiles, Dangerous offenders
>>>S.O. 31, 5475
>>>S.O. 31, 704
>>>Tocher, James, 9703-4, 9763-5
>>>Valley, Kevin, nine-time offender, released into Red Deer, Alta., community, 9395-8, 9462
>>>>o.q., 9449-50
>>>See also Child sex abuse/assault/exploitation--Registry; Dangerous/high-risk offenders--Sex offenders
>>Treatment for offenders, services for victims, petition, 10144
>>Vancouver, B.C. case, civil suit against father who assaulted daughter, bankruptcy factor, S.O. 31, 2060
>>See also see Lac Barriere Indian Band--Financial misappropriation; Sexual assault/offences--Accused acces to medical and therapeutic records

Child support payments

>>Access and visitation rights, relationship, 1483, 4908-9, 4911-3, 4915-6, 4922, 4924, 4927, 4953-4, 5022, 5025-6, 5036, 6042-3, 6049, 6076, 6078, 6082, 6199, 6204, 6207, 6273, 6301-3, 8122, 8126, 8151-2, 9527
>>>See also Divorce--Child custody
>>Arrears, 4925, 4930
>>>British Columbia, 4908
>>>Ontario, 4902, 5031
>>>Persistent arrears, definition, 6079
>>>Reasons for defaulting, identifying, 4920, 6207
>>Bloc Québécois position, 4916
>>Child, definition, broadening, 4905
>>Children needs, priority, 4905, 4913, 4916, 4919-20, 6041, 6045, 6197, 6209, 8150
>>Continuing after age of majority, when purusing education, 6043, 6299, 8122, 8147
>>Custodial parents, accountability for funds use, lack, 5026, 5031
>>Determination, Unified Family Court role, 341, 4923
>>Legislation (Bill C-41), 4916, 6196-7, 6865, 8770, 8788, 8795
>>>Amendments, 6039, 6042, 6048, 6200-3
>>>Application to married persons only, 6204
>>>Bias against male parent, 4909, 4911
>>>Bloc Québécois position, 4905, 4958-9, 6204, 6299-300
>>>Canadian Council on Co-Parenting position, 5026
>>>Consultations, 5028, 5032, 5036, 8121-2
>>>Custodial/non-custodial parents, unequal treatment, 8788
>>>Fairness, 6209
>>>Finestone role, 5028
>>>Finnie, Prof. Ross, position, 5027-8
>>>Gender based analysis, 5028
>>>Last minute, insulting, 6081-3
>>>Paternalistic, 6298-9
>>>Principles, objectives, 4901, 4903, 4952
>>>Reform Party position, 4924, 5034, 6081-3, 6205
>>>Review, five years, 8123
>>>Senate amendments, 8121-3, 8146, 8149-52
>>>>Senator Cools role, 8127, 8150, 8152
>>>Shortcomings, 4908-9, 4925, 4952, 4954, 4960, 5027, 5030-1, 5033, 5036
>>>S.O. 31, 7708
>>>Strong-arm invasive approach, 5071
>>>Thibadeau decision, influence, 6048
>>Non-payment, consequences on children, 4957
>>Orders, enforcement measures, 4913-4, 4916, 4920, 4922, 4928, 5022, 5025, 5029, 6197-9, 6209-10, 6297, 8121-2, 8795, 9516, 9536, 9922
>>>Deduction at source system, 4958
>>>Fairness, lack, 4953, 5023
>>>Federal licences and certificates, passports, withdrawing/withholding when payor in arrears, 4903, 4905, 4908, 4911, 4917, 4952, 4954, 4962, 5023, 5030, 5036, 6043, 6075-7, 6079-81, 6198, 6207, 6210, 6299, 8150
>>>Federal public service pensions and seafarers' wages, access, 4905, 4908, 4952, 4962, 5023, 5029, 5036, 6198
>>>Garnishee without notice, 4908, 4928, 4932, 4954, 4956
>>>Income tax refunds and unemployment insurance benefits, garnishment, 6198
>>>National Revenue Department data base information, access, 4903, 4908, 4917, 4928, 4952, 4954, 4962, 5023, 5030, 5034, 5036, 6198-9, 6210, 8795
>>>Ontario, comparison, 4910-11, 5035
>>>Out of province orders, collection process, streamlining, 5030
>>>Privacy rights, violations, 4954, 5023, 5034
>>>Quebec legislation, 4904, 4957-8
>>>Reform Party position, 403, 4952, 6273, 6528
>>>Regulations, non-availability, 5023
>>>Strengthening, Budget 1996 statement, 377, 407, 446, 791-2, 794, 800, 830, 1475, 1483, 4901-3, 4914
>>>>Added costs, 458
>>Payment levels, guidelines, establishing, Budget 1996 statement, 377, 405, 446, 791, 794, 800, 830, 1475, 4901-3, 4905-7, 4908-10, 4920, 4925, 4928-9, 4952, 4962, 5022-3, 5028-9, 5036, 6042-3, 6047, 6197, 6199, 6209-10, 6297, 6301, 8121-2, 8795, 9516, 9536, 9922
>>>$1.5 billion social assistance payments, savings, 4903
>>>Ability to pay, consideration, 6040-1, 6046, 6076, 6204, 6207, 6299-300, 8150
>>>Adversarial conditions being created, 6049
>>>Alternatives, negotiated agreements, acceptance, 6044-8, 6070
>>>Basing on both parents income, 8122-3, 8147, 8795
>>>Basing soley on non-custodial parent income, inequity, 6048, 6205-7, 6301-3
>>>Child province of residence deciding factor when payor living in different province, 4908, 4918-9, 6037-9, 6045, 6048-9, 6069-71, 6073, 6203, 6298-9
>>>Consistency, 6209-10
>>>Direct/indirect additional expenses by non-custodial parent, not included in calculations, 6206, 6299-300
>>>Flexibility, judicial power to adjust to suit circumstances, 4902, 4907, 4910, 4920, 4928-30, 4960, 5023, 5030-1, 5033-5, 5037, 6041, 6043, 6045, 6048, 6197, 6205, 6210, 6297-8, 6300-3
>>>Imposing on provinces, 6073
>>>Introduction by regulation, 8122
>>>Minimum/maximum, 6042
>>>Proposals, House of Commons referral, Committee review, 6051-2, 6069-75, 6080, 6204-5
>>>Provincial guidelines, replacing federal, criteria, 4905-6, 4909, 4914-5, 4918-9, 4926, 4958, 6037-40, 6045, 6047-50, 6069-70, 6072, 6074-5, 6200-3, 6211, 6297-8, 6302, 8122
>>>>Vested rights, 6045, 6071, 6202-3
>>>Provincial variations, 6042, 6048, 6049-51
>>>Public opinion, 6043
>>>Quebec, comparison, 4907, 4915, 4917-9, 6038-9, 6047-8, 6069-70, 6073-5, 6200-2, 6211, 6297, 8147
>>>Reform Party position, 4952 , 6076
>>>Review, monitoring, 5-year period, 6197-8, 6205, 9123
>>>Separation/divorce, different grids, 4906, 4914, 4918, 4931, 6045, 6049, 6070-1, 6072-3, 6298, 8122
>>Recipients, men, percentage, 4930
>>Spousal support, differences, 4905, 5031
>>System
>>>Fair and equitable, 5028
>>>Reform, 346-7, 4916
>>>>S.O. 31, 310
>>>Strengthening, o.q., 6450, 6490
>>Taxable income for recipient, tax deduction for payer, inequality, eliminating effective May 1/97, Budget 1996 statement, 376-7, 382, 405, 411, 446, 459, 791, 793-4, 806, 811, 830, 1444, 1475-6, 1482, 4901-3, 4908-9, 4914, 4916, 4920, 4927-8, 4930, 5027-31, 5035-6, 6197, 6199, 6204, 6297, 8121, 8123-4, 8147, 8795, 9516, 9527, 9536, 9922, 9947
>>>50-50 split, 8127, 9527
>>>$300-$400 million additional revenue, 841, 5027, 9947
>>>Defaults, increasing probability, 458
>>>Legislation (Bill C-92), annual review, 9947
>>>Orders, agreements prior to May 1/97, grandfathering, 791, 4902, 4920, 4929, 5029
>>>Orders, amendments, $50 million assistance fund for provinces, 4902, 5029-30
>>>Petition, 569
>>>Reform Party position, 341, 402-3
>>>Retroactivity provisions, opening floodgate of litigation, costs, 458, 1476
>>>Revenue gains, investing in programs for children, 405, 4920, 5027, 5029, 5036, 6199-200, 8121
>>>>See also Child tax benefits
>>>S.O. 31, 421-2, 475-6, 522
>>>Tax grab, 811-2, 1476, 5030
>>>Thibaudeau case, influence, 4916, 4919, 4930
>>>Women, benefitting, 800
>>See also Bankruptcy and insolvency--Spousal and child support payments; Child tax benefit; Divorce Act, Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act, Garnishment, Attachment and Pension Diversion Act and Canada Shipping Act (amdt.)(Bill C-41); Sentences (convicted criminals)--Conditional sentences, Violent/sexual offences

Child tax benefit

>>$6 billion, 8794
>>Allocation, basing on number of children in family, Budget 1997 measure, 8296
>>>o.q., 8396
>>Budget 1997 measures, 8342, 9135, 9145, 9516, 9569-70, 9629, 9633, 10043
>>>$600 million new funds, Budget 1997 statement, 8296, 8323, 8327, 8331, 8368-71, 8386-7, 8400-1, 10044, 10047
>>>>o.q., 8389
>>>$850 million new funds, effective Jan. 1/98, 9152-3
>>>Reducing benefits, New Democratic Party Leader Alexa McDonough statement, 8366
>>>>o.q., 8396
>>>S.O. 31, 8305-6
>>>See also Child tax benefit--Allocation--Working income supplement, Increase
>>Increases, 8795-6
>>Inflation, impact, 7269-70
>>Program, National Revenue Department review, 4761
>>Working income tax supplement
>>>Combining with child tax benefit in July 1998, 8794
>>>Employment changes, adjustments, 7406-7
>>>Increase, Finance Standing Committee recommendation, 7219, 7271, 7396, 7400
>>>Increase to $750 in July 1997 and $1,000 in July 1998, Budget 1996 measure, child support payment reform, relationship, 377, 405, 446, 455, 459, 792, 800, 830, 845, 848, 852, 1475, 1482, 1559, 4901, 4903, 4916, 4920, 5029-30, 6197, 6199-200, 6209-10, 6297, 6539, 6566, 7254-5, 7265, 8794, 9516, 10043
>>>>o.q., 6449-50, 6961, 7662
>>>>Second portion, speeding up, Budget 1997 measure, 8296, 9922
>>>Low and middle class families, support, 6539
>>See also Child abduction--Robitaille, Suzie

"Childhood Survivors' Memoir of the Holocaust" see Holocaust--Lecture, 6490

Children

>>Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program, promoting healthy babies among highrisk pregant women, funding, Budget 1997 measure, 8295, 8331, 9335, 9565, 10047
>>CanSave Children Award, Senator Landon Pearson, recipient, S.O. 31, 5283-4
>>Care and nuturing, national project, 9248
>>Caring for younger children, 2494, 6549-50
>>Community Action Program for Children
>>>Funding, Budget 1997 measure, 8295, 8331, 8340, 9335, 9565, 10047
>>>Funding, family resource centres, preserving
>>>>Petition, 8145, 8233
>>>>S.O. 31, 7571, 8131
>>Corporal punishment, 661
>>>Criminal Code section 43
>>>>Abolition/repeal, 3720
>>>>>United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, relationship, 341-2, 7353
>>>>>See also Criminal Code (amdt.--protection of children)(Bill C-305)
>>>>Family/parental rights, relationship, 7353
>>>>Petitions, 369, 394, 1174, 2315, 2851, 4160, 5610, 9805, 9998-9
>>>>Public opinion, 7353
>>Definition in legislation, conforming with United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 10035-41, 10237
>>>Provincial legislation, Alberta, Ontario, etc., 10041
>>>See also Bank Act (amdt.--definition of infant)(Bill C-414); Bills of Exchange Act (amdt.--definition of infant and minor)(Bill C-415); Canada Business Corporations Act (amdt.--definition of infant and minor)(Bill C-416); Canada Cooperative Associations Act (amdt.--definition of infant)(Bill C-426); Canada Health Act (amdt.--definition of child)(Bill C-417; Canada Pension Plan (amdt.--definition of child)(Bill C-411); Canada Shipping Act (amdt.--definition of child and minor)(Bill C-418); Canada Student Loans Act (amdt.--definition of full age)(Bill C-419); Canada Transportation Act (amdt.--definition of adult)(Bill C-432); Canada-United Kingdom Civil and Commercial Judgements Act (amdt.--definition of infant in matters originating in Canada)(Bill C-420); Corrections and Conditional Release Act (amdt.--definition of child)(Bill C-421); Criminal Code (amdt.--definition of child)(Bill C-443); Divorce Act (amdt.--definition of child)(Bill C-409); Excise Act (amd.--definition of adult)(Bill C-422); Excise Tax Act (amdt.--definition of child)(Bill C-427); Extradition Act (amdt.--definition of child)(Bill C-423); Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act (amdt.)(Bill C-410); Government Employees Compensation Act (amdt.--definition of infant)(Bill C-424); Hazardous Products Act (amdt.--definition of child)(Bill C-425); Indian Act (amdt.--definition of infant child)(Bill C-428); Insurance Companies Act (amdt.--definition of infant)(Bill C-430); Interpretation Act (amdt.--definition of child)(Bill C-408); Land Titles Act (amdt.--age of majority and definition of infant)(Bill C-431); Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act (amdt.--definition of child)(Bill C-412); Pension Fund Societies Act (amdt.--definition of minor child)(Bill C-433); Privacy Act (amdt.--definition of minor)(Bill C-434); Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act (amdt.--definition of child)(Bill C-429) Territorial Lands Act (amdt.--definition of adult)(Bill C-435); Wages Liability Act (amdt.--definition of adult)(Bill C-436); Young Offenders Act (amdt.--definition of child)(Bill C-413)
>>Disadvantaged, aiding, national program, provincial jurisdiction, Bloc Quebecois position, o.q, 4071-2
>>Divorce, psychological impact, etc., 4921-3, 4930, 4961, 5028
>>Fathers, raising, role, 5022
>>Future, Budget 1997 addressing, 9135
>>Government expenditures, increasing from $5.1 billion to 6 billion, Budget 1997 measures, 9145
>>Health and safety
>>>Baby carriers, backpacks, slings, etc., regulation, need, petition, 10147-8
>>>Government policy, relationship, 8794
>>>Health Standing Committee review, 8125
>>Health care system, failing, S.O. 31, 7234
>>Importance, priority, 2494-5, 7173-4
>>>Ministerial conference, recognizing, Roy Romanow, Saskatchewan premier, leadership, 7173-4
>>>>o.q., 6862
>>>>S.O. 31, 6851
>>>Quebec child care services week, emphasizing, S.O. 31, 3200
>>Kidsafe program, 7264
>>Legislation affecting, oversight committee, Justice Department role, 8018
>>>See also Department of Justice Act (amdt.)(Bill C-371)
>>Low income families, government assistance, o.q., 8390
>>Missing/abducted, finding
>>>Foreign Affairs and International Trade Department, role, 6496-7
>>>Missing child registry, Royal Canadian Mounted Police initiative, 6495-6
>>>National Revenue program, o.q., 1373
>>>Non-custodial parent, international abduction, recourse, 6497
>>National Child Day
>>>S.O. 31, 6485-6
>>>Statement by Minister (L. Axworthy), 6495-8
>>Nutrition, Thistletown Community Breakfast Club, school breakfast program, support, S.O. 31, 7511-2
>>Pregnant mother`s drug/alcohol abuse, protecting from, 8315
>>>See also Criminal Code (amdt.--protection of child before birth)(Bill C-372)
>>Rights
>>>Legislation, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 7372
>>>Privacy rights, etc., parental rights, conflict, 9365
>>>Protection/choice rights, Reform Party position, 7353
>>>Throne Speech statement, 4
>>>United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 7353, 7372
>>>>Parental rights, conflict, petition, 10238
>>Runaways see Child prostitution--Fingerprinting suspects
>>Sick, disabled, Sunshine Foundation supporting, 10041-2
>>>Sunshine Day, June 21, declaring, M. (comuzzi), agreed to, 10041-2
>>United Nations report praising Canadian commitment, 10041
>>See also China--Orphanages; Citizenship; Consumers; Crime prevention--Families; Criminal Code; Defence equipment--Land mines; Developing countries--Health; Divorce; Drug/substance abuse--Drug strategy; Family violence; Farms--Safety; Health care system--Ontario; Income tax; Israel--Terrorist attacks; Justice system--Children of divorce; Liberia; Literacy; Murder; Sexual assault/offences--Victims; Sexual orientation--Canadian Human Rights Act; Violence--Women and children; Young offenders--Crime prevention