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R v Ewanchuk, 1999 SCJ 10 (Major):
[26] The absence of consent, however, is subjective and determined by reference to the complainant’s subjective internal state of mind towards the touching, at the time it occurred: see R. v. Jensen (1996), 106 C.C.C. (3d) 430 (Ont. C.A.), at pp. 437-38, aff’d [1997] 1 S.C.R. 304, R. v. Park, [1995] 2 S.C.R. 836, at p. 850, per L’Heureux-DubĂ© J., and D. Stuart, Canadian Criminal Law (3rd ed. 1995), at p. 513.
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