Bill S-210 (Historical)

Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act

An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to sexually explicit material

This bill is from the 44th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in January 2025.

Status

Report stage (House), as of June 7, 2024
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment makes it an offence for organizations to make sexually explicit material available to young persons on the Internet. It also enables a designated enforcement authority to take steps to prevent sexually explicit material from being made available to young persons on the Internet in Canada.

Similar bills

S-209 (current session) Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act
S-203 (43rd Parliament, 2nd session) Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other S-210s:

S-210 (2025) Ukrainian Heritage Month Act
S-210 (2020) Commissioner for Children and Youth in Canada Act
S-210 (2020) An Act to amend the Parliament of Canada Act (Parliamentary Visual Artist Laureate)
S-210 (2015) Law An Act to amend An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Civil Marriage Act and the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to other Acts

Votes

Dec. 13, 2023 Passed 2nd reading of Bill S-210, An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to sexually explicit material

Public Safety and National Security Committee, on May 6, 2024

    Public Safety and National Security Committee, on May 9, 2024

      Public Safety and National Security Committee, on May 27, 2024