Facts: "Project Raphael," led by the York Regional Police, aimed to combat child luring via online ads, resulting in the arrest of Corey Daniel Ramelson for responding to an undercover operation where officers posed as underage girls.
Issues: The case focused on the application of the entrapment doctrine in online police investigations, specifically whether the police had reasonable suspicion within a sufficiently precise virtual space to justify their undercover operations.
Ruling: The appeal was dismissed. The Supreme Court held that the operation was a bona fide inquiry, with the police having reasonable suspicion that criminal activity was occurring within a specific online space. Ramelson was not entrapped because the police operation targeted a sufficiently precise area of suspected criminal activity and the approach was proportionate to the suspected offenses.
