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Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act

An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to pornographic material

Status

In committee (Senate), as of June 12, 2025

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Summary

This is from the published bill.

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

Similar bills

S-210 (44th Parliament, 1st 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-209s:

S-209 (2021) Law Pandemic Day Act
S-209 (2020) An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Regulation Adapting the Canada Elections Act for the Purposes of a Referendum (voting age)
S-209 (2020) An Act to amend the Department for Women and Gender Equality Act
S-209 (2015) An Act to amend the Official Languages Act (communications with and services to the public)

PornographyPetitionsRoutine Proceedings

June 5th, 2025 / 10:10 a.m.


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Conservative

Garnett Genuis Conservative Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB

The government House leader does not want to hear this, but it is an important petition. I hope he will take note of it and support this important bill.

The petitioners call upon the House of Commons to adopt Bill S-210, which is now Bill S-209, the protecting young persons from exposure to pornography act.

PornographyPetitionsRoutine Proceedings

June 5th, 2025 / 10:10 a.m.


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Conservative

Garnett Genuis Conservative Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB

Mr. Speaker, the next petition I am tabling deals with a bill that was previously named Bill S-210 and has been reintroduced in this Parliament as Bill S-209.

The petitioners are calling for meaningful age verification for those accessing sexual material online. They note that the consumption of sexually explicit materials by young persons is associated with a range of serious harms, including the development of pornography addiction, the reinforcement of gender stereotypes, the development of attitudes favourable to harassment and violence, etc.