Canada’s bargaining position with China is not strong, but it has a deeply troubling human rights record, including the odious practice of forced labour. Looking the other way only lasts so long, and after a while, we are complicit.
Bill S-210 is straightforward legislation that would require any website that offers porn to verify users’ age, to set up a court-supervised enforcement mechanism, and to reserve the process of approving specific age-verification methods for regulations.
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