Editing Insanity defense (section)

====Criminal Code provisions====
The defence of mental disorder is codified in section 16 of the ''[[Criminal Code (Canada)|Criminal Code]]'' which states, in part:
:''16. (1) No person is criminally responsible for an act committed or an [[omission (criminal law)|omission]] made while suffering from a [[mental disorder]] that rendered the person incapable of appreciating the nature and quality of the act or omission or of knowing that it was wrong.''<ref>{{cite web|title=16. Defence of mental disorder|url=http://yourlaws.ca/criminal-code-canada/16-defence-mental-disorder|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210213557/http://yourlaws.ca/criminal-code-canada/16-defence-mental-disorder|archive-date=2015-12-10|access-date=2015-12-09}}</ref>

To establish a claim of mental disorder the party raising the issue must show on a [[balance of probabilities]] first that the person who committed the act was suffering from a "disease of the mind", and second, that at the time of the offence they were either 1) unable to appreciate the "nature and quality" of the act, or 2) did not know it was "wrong".

The meaning of the word "wrong" was determined in the Supreme Court case of ''[[R. v. Chaulk]]'' [[Case citation#Canada|[1990] 3 S.C.R.]] which held that "wrong" was NOT restricted to "legally wrong" but to "morally wrong" as well.