Sheerin the whole point of raising the age of consent is to curb the activities of sexual predators, seeing as how Canada has one of the lowest ages of consent in the world. Come on think back to highshool (it wasn't that long ago), you can't tell me there isn't a BIG difference in the emotional maturity between the majority grade 9 and grade 11 students (there are the exceptions yes, but that is the key word EXCEPTIONS, meaning there aren't many like that). As a personal anecdote I know a guy (you probably know his brother better), who specifically went after girls who either 13 going on 14, or 14 years old because they were less mature than most older girls, and he could manipulate them better. It disgusted me then and now, but not much that could be done cause as far as I know he never broke the law (he would wait for the 13 year olds to turn 14).