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Legal Ages
Ontario, Canada.
What's the legal ages for people dating and/or sleeping together?
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Unlike the states, Canada has one national law of Age of Consent, rather than different laws in each province.
So, in all of Canada, the age of consent is sixteen.
There are two 'close in age exemptions' to that law. A person of twelve or thirteen can consent to sex someone no more than two years older than them. A fourteen or fifteen-year-old can consent to sexual activity with a partner who is no more than five years older than them. So, in Canada, a fifteen year old could legally sleep with a twenty year old.
There is one exception to all that though - if the older person is in a position of authority, like a teacher, or nurse or something like that - the younger partner must be at least eighteen years old (although they still might get in trouble with their employer, it wouldn't be a crime then).
Unlike many of states, Canadian law is very clear about what counts as sexual activity, and dating and kissing do not make the cut. There are some legal tools parents have to separate their minor children from older partners, but the age of consent is pretty liberal.
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