Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his excellent question. This will allow me to quote some of the recommendations made by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection. Its recommendations for public awareness include the following:
The creation of educational materials for children 12 years and under in order to help young children recognize signs of the abuse process...
Collaboration between tiplines such as Cybertip.ca around the world to begin tracking infants and toddlers in child abuse imagery...
Creation of gender-related educational materials in response to the large percentage of girls depicted in abuse imagery.
Working with law enforcement and Internet service and content providers to remove illegal content from Canadian servers.
Establishing international standards for the personal information a registrant is required to provide when registering a new domain name [for the entire Internet].
Partnering with domain name registrants to have domains hosting illegal content discarded from use so new website owners cannot purchase domains known to host child pornography and reuse it for the same purpose.
Need for further research on the impact of child sexual abuse on victims and whether the Internet has changed the nature and extent of their trauma and healing process.
Collaboration and data sharing between organizations...
Research is needed to determine how words are being used on websites...
There are three other recommendations but I am short on time. We have to be able to foster awareness in the entire community. The sexual exploitation of children is a very serious crime, a horrible crime and a scourge that will only be eradicated by our entire society working together.