Information & Ethics committee  You're right; we won't. Say, for example, we identified a young girl from Ottawa, and we found that her father had identified images. I don't pretend to know the answer, but are there ways, are there things the ISPs could be doing to help law enforcement remove those photos? I th

Information & Ethics committee  I did quote it. I'm certainly happy to provide a copy to the committee.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. There are jurisdictions—certainly Ontario is one, and my friend can speak to others—where pawnshops are required to track the customers and the merchandise, and law enforcement can have access to that to try to trace back to who had the stolen property and maybe where it cam

Information & Ethics committee  But I speak of that because to find out those people who possess that stuff may also prevent the abuse of other children. That heightens why it is especially important.

Information & Ethics committee  There is, and my friend can speak to this perhaps. I know the Toronto Police Service has been very active in trying to track back through image analysis. You may remember the case of images they released, taking out the young girl's image but showing a hotel room or amusement pa

Information & Ethics committee  That's absolutely the case. I agree with you on your first point about this being an international problem; we're certainly not naive about this being a Canadian problem. In cases like the one last week, when this huge child pornography ring was busted and our law enforcement was

Information & Ethics committee  I don't pretend to be an expert on it. But I can say that the advancement of technology is becoming an increasing issue for law enforcement in a very general sense, not just related to this issue, but with all the BlackBerrys, ISPs, and cellphones.... The technology is advancin

Information & Ethics committee  I know that there are other jurisdictions that do require ISPs to do more and to cooperate with these kinds of things. The United States has legislation. The United Kingdom and Australia have legislation. We found that out when we were looking at Bill C-74, the bill from the prev

Information & Ethics committee  We haven't studied the models in depth, so I can't give you any specifics.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, I did find the copy of the letter from the Privacy Commissioner. We could have it photocopied, perhaps, before we leave.

Information & Ethics committee  I will just restate again that certainly we've heard anecdotal information from law enforcement that...my friend is correct: the misinterpretation of the legislation--because there is some room for interpretation--has hindered law enforcement. Our position is that even if 99% of

Information & Ethics committee  Our focus here today is crimes against children. Having said that, I think it's appropriate that we look at other issues that are identified. Again, Bill C-74 speaks to the broader issue. Our issue to raise here today is the sexual exploitation of children. That's not to say ther

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  We're saying they shouldn't have to get a warrant to get a name and address of someone who's suspected of trading child pornography or distributing child pornography. They shouldn't have to get a warrant for that information. As my friend mentioned, it's not about the websites th

Information & Ethics committee  It's all sorts of crime.