Mr. Speaker, it is wonderful that the parliamentary secretary has so much confidence in his minister, but I do not.
When the minister was responsible for Canadian heritage, he had an opportunity to address online exploitation. In fact, in his own backyard, there is a company called MindGeek, the world's largest pornography company. In 2020, The New York Times embarrassed the Liberals into acknowledging the existence of this Canadian company.
This was well after we warned the government that MindGeek was publishing videos of online sexual material, child sexual material, child sex trafficking and rape, and was making a lot of money. The minister promised to propose legislation within three weeks. Those weeks turned into months, which turned into years, and still nothing was ever done. As a result, survivors have continued to be exploited on these platforms.
If we cannot trust the minister to do his job when he is required to protect women and children, how can we trust him on anything else?