Foreign Interference and Security of Information Act

Marginal note:Intimidation, threats or violence

• 20 (1) Every person commits an offence who, at the direction of, for the benefit of or in association with, a foreign entity or a terrorist group, induces or attempts to induce, by intimidation, threat or violence, any person to do anything or to cause anything to be done.

• Marginal note:Extraterritorial application

  (2) Despite subsection 26(1), a person who commits an act referred to in subsection (1) while outside Canada is deemed to have committed it in Canada if

  • (a) the victim is in Canada; or

  • (b) the victim is outside Canada and

    • (i) the person or the victim or both are

      • (A) a Canadian citizen,

      • (B) a person who is ordinarily resident in Canada,

      • (C) a permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act,

      • (D) a person who owes allegiance to His Majesty in right of Canada, or

      • (E) a person who is locally engaged and who performs their functions in a Canadian mission outside Canada, or

    • (ii) is a person described in any of clauses (i)(A) to (E), the intimidation, threat or violence is in relation to the victim’s child, relative or intimate partner, as defined in section 2 of the Criminal Code, and the child, relative or partner is in or outside Canada.

• Marginal note:Punishment

  (3) Every person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for life.

• Marginal note:Sentences to be served consecutively

  (4) A sentence, other than one of life imprisonment, imposed on a person for an offence under subsection (1) is to be served consecutively to

  • (a) any other sentence imposed on the person, other than one of life imprisonment, for an offence arising out of the same event or series of events; and

  • (b) any other sentence, other than one of life imprisonment, to which the person is subject at the time the sentence is imposed on the person for an offence under subsection (1).

• Marginal note:Application — subsections 26(2) to (4)

  (5) If a person is deemed under this section to have committed an act referred to in subsection (1) in Canada, subsections 26(2) to (4) apply, with any adaptations that may be necessary, to any proceedings in respect of an offence under subsection (1).

• Marginal note:Definition of victim

  (6) For greater certainty, in this section, victim means the person who the person who commits, or is alleged to have committed, the offence under subsection (1) induces or attempts to induce, or is alleged to have induced or attempted to induce, to do anything or to cause anything to be done.