I have to give partial credit for the work on this one to my colleague, Michelle Rempel Garner, who tackled a lot of the issues long before the government did in her Bill C-216. This was also something that came about through some testimony that we heard from witnesses.
It adds an escalating penalty for the material at issue here. If we're talking about material that depicts sexual assault, it increases the maximum penalty. It's putting in some graduated sentencing, which is making this very serious, as it deserves to be.
