Thank you so much, Madam Chair.
While I appreciate all the work that my colleague, Mr. Viersen, has done in this area, but this is somewhat funny in the sense that this entire discussion has been the Conservatives arguing that content is about to be regulated by the CRTC. This is introducing an amendment for content to be regulated by the CRTC. I can't even get over that. This is exactly what this amendment does.
It is saying that user-generated content should now be regulated to prevent children from seeing sexually explicit content, etc. Now, if we're talking about illegal content, there's another bill that hopefully will come forward shortly that will deal with illegal content, including the illegal content that may potentially be existing that's referred to in subparagraph (vi) here, but I don't believe that this is appropriate. This is actually asking the CRTC to get into content.
We have the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council that already deals with this type of issue. I don't think the CRTC needs to, and certainly not by introducing it to Bill C-11 and going into user-generated content.
I actually do not support the amendment and I would also note that, in terms of preventing the broadcasting to children of programs that include sexually explicit content, that's a question for parents to decide what their children can and cannot see if they're minors, not the government.
In any case, I don't support this amendment, and it really goes against everything the Conservatives have been saying at this committee for the last month.
Thank you, Madam Chair.