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Originally Posted by GioforPM
In Canada intent still matters for manslaughter, insofar as you have to intend to do an illegal act. It's not murder unless you intend to kill, however (you have to be reckless as to the result).
So if I punch someone in a non-consensual fight and I accidentally kill them I intended an illegal act (assault) and was reckless as to the damage it causes.
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Any violent contact, a kick for instance, would be an assault in both the UK and Canada, except possibly in a martial arts contest where kicking was a specific part of the sport, a kick in a boxing match would be an assault, there is no way an intentional kick would be considered a consensual act in a hockey game either here or in the UK, the guy seems a lock for a manslaughter conviction