Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

Marginal note:Extortion by libel

• 302 (1) Every one commits an offence who, with intent

  • (a) to extort money from any person, or

  • (b) to induce a person to confer on or procure for another person an appointment or office of profit or trust,

  publishes or threatens to publish or offers to abstain from publishing or to prevent the publication of a defamatory libel.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (2) Every one commits an offence who, as the result of the refusal of any person to permit money to be extorted or to confer or procure an appointment or office of profit or trust, publishes or threatens to publish a defamatory libel.

• Marginal note:Punishment

  (3) Every person who commits an offence under this section is guilty of

  • (a) an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years; or

  • (b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.