QUESTION PERIOD — Ministry of Justice
Cybercrime
May 28, 2026
Minister, my next question is actually about deepfakes. I’d like to know how you think the justice system can better protect vulnerable people from these new forms of exploitation.
Certainly. This is awful behaviour that we are seeing. It is having a permanent and lasting impact on victims who had no knowledge and provided no consent to the use of their likeness for images that can be used to threaten, extort, embarrass and interfere with the integrity of their person.
Judges from the bench are calling for the government to take action expeditiously to amend the Criminal Code specifically to deal with this issue, and we have to listen to them.
In addition to changing the law insofar as it impacts the use of AI to create “deepfakes,” we also need to realize there has been a shift in behaviour. We need to change the law so that it captures not only the distribution but also the threatened distribution —
Thank you, minister.
