Section 423.2 — Criminal Code: Intimidation — health services

Every person commits an offence who engages in any conduct with the intent to provoke a state of fear in a person in order to impede them from obtaining health services from a health professional; a health professional in order to impede them in the performance of their duties; or a person, whose functions are to assist a health professional in the performance of the health professional’s duties, in order to impede that person in the performance of those functions. Every person commits an offence who, without lawful authority, intentionally obstructs or interferes with another person’s lawful access to a place at which health services are provided by a health professional. Every person who commits an offence under subsection (1) or (2) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years; or guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction. No person is guilty of an offence under subsection (2) by reason only that they attend at or near, or approach, a place referred to in that subsection for the purpose only of obtaining or communicating information. In this section, health professional means a person who is entitled under the laws of a province to provide health services.