Intimidation of Parliament is a criminal law in Canada that makes it a crime to violently intimidate the Parliament of Canada and the provincial legislatures. The maximum sentence is fourteen years. It reads:
The law is one of only a handful of criminal offences,[1] including treason and piracy, that are automatically heard by the relevant provincial superior court—composed of federally appointed,[2] salaried,[3] and disciplined[4] judges—rather than the inferior Provincial courts, which are composed of provincially appointed[5] judges. It is a very rare crime. One of the few individuals to be charged with the crime in recent decades was Charles Yacoub who hijacked a Greyhound bus and had it driven onto Parliament Hill in 1989. In his trial, Yacoub was later found not guilty of the particular charge.[6]