What is the Legal age dating limit in Canada?

Answer 1

I can not see that the Canadian law actually implement restrictions when it comes to dating.

I would have no problems at age 10 of going to the cinema with my best girlfriend age 8 and call it a date.

I would even at age 30 consider it an honour if a very young girl I invited to a movie called it a date afterwards. I just don't think about a date as being only for sex.

A date is about making an appointment to do something together. This something is often thought of as being sexual but it does not have to be.

Dating does not have to include sex.

As for the dating that includes sex (new laws from around May 1, 2008):

It is now illegal for adults in Canada to have sex with a partner under the age of 16, one of the new provisions of the Tories' violent crime law.

The Tackling Violent Crime Act raises the legal age of sexual consent in Canada to 16 from 14, the first time it has been raised since 1892.

But the law includes a "close-in-age exception," meaning 14- and 15-year-olds can have sex with someone who is less than five years older.

The Tories said they raised the age, in part, to deal with internet predators. The new law puts Canada's age of consent in line with those in Britain, Australia and most of the United States.