Stuart Sinclair Garson (Solicitor General of Canada; Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada)
Liberal
Mr. Garson:
I do not think that the plain meaning of the word "sabotage" is so clear as my hon. friend would have us believe. The word "sabotage" is a word which is popularly and loosely used to include a number of things. If my hon. friend is concerned with the position of the subject, it seems to me that his position is much better by referring to a prohibited act and then defining that act as it is defined in this section. Subsection 2 reads:
In this section "prohibited act" means any act or omission that (a) impairs the efficiency or impedes the working of any vessel, vehicle, aircraft, machinery, apparatus or other thing;
And so on.