[vimto]

I hardly bothered to look at the post until I noticed 14 years old!? How did they reduce the age of consent to that?

[MineralMan]

"I hardly bothered to look at the post until I noticed 14 years old!?"

Until recently, several US states had the age of consent set at 14, too. I believe all have raised to at least 16 now.

[fanfan]

14 has always been the age of consent here in Canada.

[The_Reader_David]

They probably didn't reduce the age of consent to 14, it probably was always that way.

Marriages at puberty were common in pre-industrial societies, including in North America, and age-of-consent laws reflected this. In many 'Red' states, age-of-consent laws allow marriages with parental consent at 14. Oddly the 'Blue' states where once one hits 18 any sex, no matter how perverse, is 'celebrated', were the ones to first institute the fiction that sexually mature human beings who can't vote yet are 'children'.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Re post 4, the liberals did it. Are you surprised?

[VOA]

How did they reduce the age of consent to that?

I guess because they couldn't get it down to age 12, as proposed
by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
(I just had to say it as an American with family in Canada)