ICYMI: Canadian astronauts no longer free to rob and kill with abandon in space or on the moon
“A Canadian crew member who, during a space flight, commits an act or omission outside Canada that if committed in Canada would constitute an indictable offence is deemed to have committed that act or omission in Canada,” reads the measure included inBasically, the amendment means that if a Canadian commits a criminal offence while in space, they’ll be met by handcuffs once they return.
Astronaut Anne McClain was accused by her estranged spouse, Summer Worden, of unlawfully using an ISS computer to access Worden’s online bank records — which Worden contended was a form of identity theft. The allegations were subsequently found to be false, and Worden now stands accused of lying to U.S. investigators.
Article 22 of the treaty states that anybody aboard the station is subject to the criminal jurisdiction of their home country. But even then, there remains a messy gray area in the event that an astronaut commits a crime against an astronaut of a different country. In that case, the treaty simply advises the countries of the two astronauts discuss their “respective prosecutorial interests.”
Canada has actually become embroiled in a legal scenario of this kind before, although it involved the legally ambiguous jurisdiction of an iceberg rather than space.Article content
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