If there is a significant risk that you will pass on HIV to your sex partner during sex, you have a legal duty to tell your sex partner your HIV status before you have sex.

• It is illegal to expose someone to a significant risk of HIV. Even if your sex partner does not become infected with HIV, you can be criminally charged and convicted.
• Lying about your HIV infection ("I'm HIV negative.") and not telling your partner about your HIV infection ("He didn't ask. I didn't tell.") are the same thing under the criminal law.
• You can be charged and convicted even if you didn't know or think that you had a legal duty to disclose.
• You have a legal duty to disclose your HIV infection no matter where you meet the guy or have sex. It may be an online hook-up, in a bathhouse, bedroom, park, locker room, washroom, backroom, or at a sex party.
• You have a legal duty to disclose your HIV infection no matter how long you have known the guy or what he means to you. He may be a long-term lover, spouse, fuck buddy, trick, anonymous fuck, date, potential life-partner, street pick up, internet hook-up, friend, or part of a threesome/group.
• You have a legal duty to disclose your HIV infection whether you have sex for fun, to make money, or in exchange for drugs or other things.
• The criminal law is the same across Canada, in every province and territory.

Discrimination means treating a person unequally so that he does not get what he legally deserves. There are laws to protect you from discrimination. The two most important laws are the:

• Ontario Human Rights Code
• Canadian Human Rights Act