Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

Marginal note:Assisting alien enemy to leave Canada, or omitting to prevent treason

• 50 (1) Every one commits an offence who

  • (a) incites or wilfully assists a subject of

    • (i) a state that is at war with Canada, or

    • (ii) a state against whose forces Canadian Forces are engaged in hostilities, whether or not a state of war exists between Canada and the state whose forces they are,

    to leave Canada without the consent of the Crown, unless the accused establishes that assistance to the state referred to in subparagraph (i) or the forces of the state referred to in subparagraph (ii), as the case may be, was not intended thereby; or

  • (b) knowing that a person is about to commit high treason or treason does not, with all reasonable dispatch, inform a justice of the peace or other peace officer thereof or make other reasonable efforts to prevent that person from committing high treason or treason.

• Marginal note:Punishment

  (2) Every one who commits an offence under subsection (1) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.