Certainly. Thank you for the question.
I'm sure you're all familiar with the Supreme Court of Canada's 2001 Sharpe decision. In that decision, they held that making and possessing fictional child sexual abuse and exploitation material doesn't cause sufficient harm to merit criminalization. In order to preserve its constitutionality, they read in a private use exception, and basically that exception exculpates a person who possesses or makes fictional child sexual abuse and exploitation material and keeps that material solely for their own use, unless there's evidence that the accused made the material with intent to distribute it.
I'd like to stress that officials are seized of this matter and are working on it, including with our provincial and territorial partners, who enforce the law and can help us gather the evidence that we need to justify a full ban.
Thank you very much.