Senator Miville-Dechêne takes on the porn industry

Bill S-210, the Protecting Young Persons from exposure to Pornography Act, is a few weeks away from third reading in the Senate, and should then proceed to the House of Commons.

Independent Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne, seated right, with Liberal MP John McKay, left, at a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on Sept. 26, 2022, has introduced two public bills to restrict the availability of porn to minors. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

March 1, 2023

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—Pornography is a dirty, but lucrative, business. Worth a trillion dollars worldwide, it generates more than $13-billion in revenues in the United States annually. In Canada, revenues are close to $1-billion.

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