Placeholder.
Intimidation
423. (1) Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to
imprisonment for a term of not more than five years or is guilty of
an offence punishable on summary conviction who, wrongfully and
without lawful authority, for the purpose of compelling another
person to abstain from doing anything that he or she has a lawful
right to do, or to do anything that he or she has a lawful right to
abstain from doing,
- uses violence or threats of violence to that person or his or
her spouse or common-law partner or children, or injures his or
her property;
- intimidates or attempts to intimidate that person or a relative
of that person by threats that, in Canada or elsewhere, violence
or other injury will be done to or punishment inflicted on him or
her or a relative of his or hers, or that the property of any of
them will be damaged;
- persistently follows that person;
- hides any tools, clothes or other property owned or used by
that person, or deprives him or her of them or hinders him or her
in the use of them;
- with one or more other persons, follows that person, in a
disorderly manner, on a highway;
- besets or watches the place where that person resides, works,
carries on business or happens to be; or
- blocks or obstructs a highway.
Exception
(2) A person who attends at or near or approaches a dwelling-house or
place, for the purpose only of obtaining or communicating
information, does not watch or beset within the meaning of this
section.
R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 423; 2000, c. 12, s. 95; 2001, c. 32, s. 10.