Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise and talk about the existence of child pornography in literature. Bringing it up to current times, right now there is a book called The Perils of Protecting Kids from Sex by Judith Levine, a New York-based journalist who argues for the lowering of the age of consent in some cases, as has been done in the Netherlands where children as young as 12 take part in sex if they do so without coercion.
This is exactly why we are bringing the motion forward. We have already lowered the age of consent to 14 and here we have people pressing for the age to be lowered even further. Literature such as this provokes and encourages children to partake in these activities that are detrimental to their health.