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House Hansard - 51

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 1, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 51 - Apr/1/22
Mr. Arnold Viersen (Peace River—Westlock, CPC)
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Mr. Speaker, I have several petitions to present today. The first petition is from Canadians from across the country. The petitioners are concerned about the accessibility and impacts of violent and degrading sexually explicit material online and the impacts on public health, especially the well-being of women and girls. The petitioners recognize that we cannot say that we believe in preventing sexual violence against women while allowing pornography companies to freely expose our children to violent, explicit sexual imagery day after day, which is a form of child abuse. The petitioners note that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child requires Canada to develop means to protect children from the forms of media that are injurious to their well-being. As such, these petitioners are calling on the House of Commons to adopt legislation that would require websites to have meaningful age verification on all adult websites.
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