Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

Marginal note:False information

• 372 (1) Everyone commits an offence who, with intent to injure or alarm a person, conveys information that they know is false, or causes such information to be conveyed by letter or any means of telecommunication.

• Marginal note:Indecent communications

  (2) Everyone commits an offence who, with intent to alarm or annoy a person, makes an indecent communication to that person or to any other person by a means of telecommunication.

• Marginal note:Harassing communications

  (3) Everyone commits an offence who, without lawful excuse and with intent to harass a person, repeatedly communicates, or causes repeated communications to be made, with them by a means of telecommunication.

• Marginal note:Punishment

  (4) Everyone who commits an offence under this section is

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

  • (b) guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.