As the Court in Laplante explains, the conduct of the defendant will be measured against what the careful and prudent parent would do according to the “community standards of the time”. Insofar as community standards are concerned, it is the immediate community that is of concern: Arnold v. Teno, 1978 CanLII 2 (SCC), [1978] 2 S.C.R. 287 at 313.
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