Madam Speaker, the next petition is from Canadians across the country. These petitioners are concerned about the accessibility of violent and degrading sexually explicit material online and the impacts on public health, especially on the well-being of women and girls. They recognize that we cannot say that we believe in preventing sexual violence toward women while allowing pornography companies to freely expose our children to violent, sexually explicit material day after day. This is a form of child abuse.
They note that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child requires Canada to develop the means to protect children from forms of media that are injurious to their well-being. As such, these petitioners call on the House of Commons to enact meaningful age verification on adult websites.