Health committee  My starting point is clearly not that all pornography is toxic to the brain. I don't believe that's true. And if we look at the foot traffic in a cyber sense, kids are accessing this information for, as Kathleen has already said, a variety of purposes including education, informa

Health committee  I'm not sure where to start. Really, the question of who sets the standard is a difficult one to answer, because those standards change over time. Social mores, norms, and so on change over time, and my only suggestion and recommendation would be to look nationally at countries

Health committee  Again, I will make a copy of Dr. Julia Bailey's paper available to people. It's a very comprehensive scoping review that looks at the effectiveness of certain types of interventions. In relation to this conversation about online access, it actually tackles that particular issue d

Health committee  There are quite a few papers. The good news about a scoping review is that essentially they've done your homework for you. They've looked at all the papers that fit within a particular framework, and they've included those in the scoping review. They've looked specifically at thi

Health committee  Thank you. That's a really important question. As I alluded to in my opening comments, I think we need to look at what kind of sexual health education is being offered, not just on paper—the approved curriculum—but how it gets enacted in the classroom. We know, for example, that

Health committee  It's a bit of a difficult question to weigh in on because, as your colleague has alluded to, what parents feel uncomfortable with is probably something they are not going to talk about in their homes. So how do we make that information more available? The suggestion I have put f

Health committee  I think the idea behind proposing a national health promotion strategy is to look at and address those gaps. If we look at the U.K. and at Australia, we see great examples of best practices in terms of how to offer sexual health promotion and education to youth in schools, and it

Health committee  It's a great question. I'm going to speak to the policy component. As we know, Canada has a long-standing gender-based analytic framework that has been dusted off and redeployed as the GBA+ framework. My suggestion is that if we're looking at this from a policy perspective, let

Health committee  Absolutely one of the key ones, as I've already alluded to, is the rate of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections. That's a key indicator of success in terms of whether or not you have increased or decreased those, but there needs to be some evaluative component in the w

Health committee  Yes, without a doubt. The point I was trying to make around the proposition of developing a national sexual health promotion strategy was aimed at exactly that. There would be a federal standard to which all curriculum would be held. Again, we see across the nation a huge variabi

Health committee  Yes and yes. So, yes we should and yes we can. The suggestion I brought forward is a more comprehensive national sexual health promotion strategy. Recognizing that education and health are provincial responsibilities, I still think there's a place for leadership at the federal

Health committee  There's a recent scoping review by a colleague of mine from the University College London. Her name is Julia Bailey. She's put out a very comprehensive scoping review on the issue of Internet sexual health information. In that you'll find evidence-based.... They have looked at se

Health committee  I am not a lawyer. My suggestion is that you might want to speak to somebody from the Health Law Institute at Dalhousie University specifically about that. The point I was trying to make in my presentation was essentially that youth are unaware of criminal activity, so even if t

Health committee  Hello. I'm pleased to be here today. I'd like to start by acknowledging that the land that we gather on is a traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabe. While we know that pornography in the Internet age is clearly an important health and social issue, the role