Thank you, Madam Chair.
As I was saying, what are we doing here today? Well, we're talking about a bill, and then an amendment that was put forward. Bill C-270 is much, much needed. It's an act to amend the Criminal Code related to pornographic material. What I was speaking about at the beginning of this was sextortion. For a lot of parents, you know, this is a tough conversation to have at home, but it's important that we know what this is.
What is sextortion? Well, it is where people are having a conversation online through an app. It can be Snapchat or Instagram or a lot of these applications that our children use every day and that adults use, but obviously it's a different can of worms when minors are impacted or involved. There is an exchange or an ask for an image, an intimate image. That person says okay and they send it to them. That picture or image or video, or whatever it is, is then used to extort that person. They are asked for money.