QUESTION PERIOD — Justice
Cybersex Trafficking
October 17, 2022
Senator Gold, the French Senate just tabled a shocking report revealing that 17% of Pornhub’s viewers are children. This is the first time such an estimate has been made. Moreover, a quarter of the world’s internet bandwidth is used to view pornography.
What does the government intend to do to limit children’s exposure to these crude, sometimes violent and traumatizing images?
Thank you for the question and for highlighting the issue, the problem and the challenge, as you have done a number of times, much to your credit.
As I have noted several times, certain sections of the Criminal Code prohibit several aspects of this shocking practice. You have also introduced a private bill that we are considering.
That said, the federal government has a limited number of tools at its disposal to enact legislation governing everything that happens or appears on the internet.
However, I will ask the government for a progress update on this.
