moved for leave to introduce Bill C-216, An Act to enact the Protection of Minors in the Digital Age Act and to amend two Acts.
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to introduce a bill that would protect Canadians online while safeguarding their civil liberties. The bill proposes a tightly scoped legislative duty of care for online operators as it pertains to children's online safety, would strengthen mandatory reporting requirements for online child sexual abuse material by Internet providers, would update existing laws to criminalize the non-consensual distribution of intimate images to include deepnudes and would modernize existing laws to provide more protections for victims of online criminal harassment. It avoids the creation and use of ubiquitous and overbroad mechanisms that would impinge on Canadian civil liberties.
The bill is a non-partisan plea for the government and all colleagues in this place to abandon previously proposed flawed approaches to this issue and to pass smart measures to protect kids online.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)