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Mel Arnold

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • North Okanagan—Shuswap
  • British Columbia
  • Voting Attendance: 69%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $117,514.07

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Context: House Hansard - 303 - Apr/19/24
Mr. Mel Arnold (North Okanagan—Shuswap, CPC)
Mr. Speaker, the next petition I have is, again, signed by residents of North Okanagan—Shuswap and Canadians. It states that sexually explicit material, including demeaning material and material depicting sexual violence, can easily be accessed on the Internet by young persons. The petitioners, therefore, call upon the House of Commons to adopt Bill S-210 to protect young persons from exposure to pornography.
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Context: House Hansard - 129 - Nov/17/22
Mr. Mel Arnold
Madam Speaker, we spoke the other day, and I believe the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands is supportive of the bill. The way this bill can help is it would provide a better term for the definition of child pornography within the Criminal Code of Canada. Our judicial system relies on clarity so there is no ambiguity. A big part of our duty as parliamentarians is to provide clarity in legislation and remove the ambiguity that might be there.
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Context: House Hansard - 91 - Jun/17/22
Mr. Mel Arnold (North Okanagan—Shuswap, CPC)
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-291, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (child sexual abuse material). He said: Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise to introduce my private member's bill, an act to amend the Criminal Code. First, I want to thank the bill's author and seconder, the member for Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo. The private members' draw resulted in my name being drawn much earlier than that of the member for Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo, so we agreed to use my earlier draw to get this bill tabled, and hopefully passed, in Parliament. My hon. colleague's experience as a prosecutor brought to light the issue of how the Criminal Code uses the term “child pornography”. The term “child pornography” sanitizes what children go through, having never given consent. Child victims will have their victimization live on in perpetuity, and the words used in the Criminal Code must reflect the seriousness of this so that it is correctly understood within and throughout the judicial system. This is a simple but necessary bill. It would simply change the name of “child pornography” to “child sexual abuse material”. That is all. Words matter. “Pornography” is used to describe media depicting or describing consenting adults. Children can never consent to sexual activity with adults. That is why any sexualized depiction of children must be called what it is: abuse. I call on all members of the House to support the prompt passage of this bill.
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