If Parliament intends to create a regulatory framework, it should clearly establish a positive obligation and then use the tools that are usually used in a regulatory context, such as administrative monetary penalties.
However, the bill creates a new offence, for which certain defences are provided, but it also allows the agency responsible for enforcing the act to seek an order to limit access to certain websites. That means we could find ourselves in a situation—the bill confirms this—where websites that provide many types of content, including pornography, would be blocked. The question is whether website blocking is an appropriate and proportionate response that respects the rights of Canadians to access information and content. However, with all due respect to the committee, the government does not believe that website blocking is a proportionate response to the framework proposed here.