Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This amendment deals with the problem that, again, the way in which the bill is drafted fails to take into account the fact that the world of Internet means that some of those people who could be caught up in this bill have no possible way in which they would know of the content. Specifically, Internet service providers could be found culpable under this act when they simply are neutral service providers. They may in fact provide a search engine that indexes content on various websites. They don't know what's on it. They're not existing for the purpose of disseminating intimate images without consent. We think this criminal liability on neutral service providers.... This was certainly the view, I want to emphasize, of the Canadian Bar Association, which believes that this provision is actually so unreasonable that it wouldn't survive a charter challenge or charter scrutiny. You certainly can't find moral culpability or mens rea on the part of Internet service providers who could get caught up under this section.
So my amendment number 6 attempts to deal with that problem by following the advice that the bar association made at page 8 of their brief, that no person who is a provider of telecommunications services, information tools, and so on, shall be convicted of an offence under this section.