Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Looking at this amendment, we're still on page 1 under clause 3, revising proposed section 162.1. What my amendment does is remove the words—this is relating to consent—“or being reckless as to whether or not that person gave their consent to that conduct”. Again, this speaks to advice from the Canadian Bar Association that there's an unreasonable onus being created here on the person who receives an image to ascertain consent before sharing the image.
The purpose of the bill is to criminalize those people who are using images for the purpose of bullying someone. If you don't know who is in the image, the chances are you're not aware of their identity, so how can you be a cyberbully if you've received their image? The burden in the current Internet age to determine consent is really quite an unreasonable onus, and the advice from the Canadian Bar Association's brief was to remove this language. That's what my amendment PV-2 tries to do.