Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Minister and officials.
Minister Fraser, you and I have spoken several times about sextortion since I was elected. I want to go over what Bill C-16 says.
We see that pillar two of Bill C-16 proposes significant amendments to strengthen Canada's response to child sexual exploitation both online and off-line. It would restore the mandatory minimum penalties and introduce new penalties related to sextortion and a new offence for recruiting youth under 18 into criminal activity. It would also strengthen the mandatory reporting and data preservation obligations of online service providers. Together, these measures, hopefully, would combat the evolving tactics of these bad actors.
Can you outline in more detail how Bill C-16 would prevent child exploitation, particularly in the digital environments we spoke about?