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View Han Dong Profile
Lib. (ON)
It's not working?
The Chair: Okay, you're back on. Great.
Mr. Han Dong: I hope I get an extra minute because of technical difficulties.
I want to thank all the witnesses for coming forward.
Mr. White, first things first, I remember in 2019 that the government announced an expansion of the national strategy for protecting children from sexual exploitation on the Internet. I think that the total was over $22 million. Specifically, $15.25 million was to enhance the capacity of the Internet child exploitation unit, which is the ICE unit.
Can you tell us whether that capacity of RCMP's ICE unit across the country has been enhanced as a result of this additional investment?
Stephen White
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Stephen White
2021-02-22 12:56
Thank you for that question.
We did receive additional funding. We have implemented new resources, both in the national crime centre here in Ottawa which I mentioned, the National Child Exploitation Crime Centre, as well as in ICE units across the country. A lot of those units across the country are integrated units. They're made up of RCMP and other local police services as well.
View Han Dong Profile
Lib. (ON)
Along the same line as my Conservative colleague's question, we heard testimony from witnesses saying that subsidiary companies of MindGeek sometimes shared content, or moved some non-consensual or child pornography content to other platforms to add content to them.
In itself, isn't that a violation of the Criminal Code? Have you done any investigation on their intentionally adding content to subsidiary companies to make money? Have you done any investigations on that?
Stephen White
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Stephen White
2021-02-22 12:58
No, we're not aware.... We haven't been informed of their adding their own content, child sexual exploitation content, if that's what you're referring to.
View Han Dong Profile
Lib. (ON)
This is a very interesting point you brought up. I didn't get a chance to ask this in the previous session.
Why is Pornhub reporting to NCMEC as opposed to reporting to the authority directly? Isn't it very strange that they report to a not-for-profit organization and not to the police?
Stephen White
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Stephen White
2021-02-22 13:00
In the United States, one of the reporting entities is NCMEC. That's why a lot of the disclosures we get, not just from Pornhub but other Internet service providers and hosting platforms.... If they have a presence in the United States, they are able to disclose to the American entity as well.
View Marie-Hélène Gaudreau Profile
BQ (QC)
Thank you, Madam Chair.
Mr. White, my colleague was talking about an increase in investments of more than $22 million, which allowed you to increase your staff to work on the problem.
Even if money is spent today, even if people can no longer download the content that has been removed, we would like to know what happened in the previous months. So I have three questions for you.
Does the amount of money collected always correspond to the number of complaints you receive, or do you now monitor preventively?
How is it that it was through the media that we learned that MindGeek, which owns Pornhub, had broken the law?
How do you intervene preventively, and how do you handle complaints?
Stephen White
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Stephen White
2021-02-22 13:03
Thank you very much for the question.
We can always do more in terms of prevention. This has always been our priority. The more we do, the better.
Ms. Arsenault talked a little bit about the volume of complaints we receive and the number of investigators it would take to deal with all of them. I'll ask her to elaborate on that.
View Marie-Hélène Gaudreau Profile
BQ (QC)
Forgive me for interrupting, but I don't have much time.
Will the investment of more than $22 million allow you to be more vigilant in terms of prevention? We can see that laws are very different from one country to another and that these companies have found a business model that will allow them to continue to operate.
Other than this investment and the means to keep a watchful eye, what would you need to intervene upstream of problems that could lead to thousands of complaints?
Marie-Claude Arsenault
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Marie-Claude Arsenault
2021-02-22 13:06
We always need more resources, but the resources we invest in this area are more for the proactive aspect. We need to collect data and prioritize cases to be able to stop abuse. Of course, building partnerships is really important to do these investigations.
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
Okay.
In 2011, the Canadian Parliament passed a law that if an Internet content hosting service provider came across issues of child abuse online, they had a legal obligation to report to the police. That was in 2011.
Stephen White
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Stephen White
2021-02-22 13:11
I'll ask Madam Arsenault to confirm that, but it's my understanding we only began receiving complaints in 2020.
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