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View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
Rose Kalemba contacted our committee and asked us to fight for her. At age 14, she was kidnapped, brutally tortured and sexually assaulted, and her videos were posted on Pornhub, downloaded and promoted.
In your view—and I just have to be blunt here because we've talked about some really difficult stuff at our committee so I hope you don't find me being too blunt—would you believe that the posting of those videos represents criminal acts?
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
Good, because it has sections 162, 163 and 164, and yet those laws are not being applied.
I need to know why we need a regulator to oversee something that's already under the Criminal Code. The promotion of these videos, according to law, is a criminal act, so why don't we just apply the law?
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
Are you saying we simply don't need to use the Criminal Code? What surprises me is that internal documents from the RCMP's December 12 briefing note on Pornhub pointed out that your office is going to be taking the lead.
According to those documents, they are not going after Pornhub, so did cabinet tell the RCMP to stand down while you developed this regulator? Why is it that the RCMP are under the impression that you're the lead on this, and that the Canadian laws that exist are not going to be applied?
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
I get that. I guess my concern is that you haven't actually come up with legislation. You don't know when this regulator's going to appear, and the RCMP internal notes say your office is taking the lead.
We have survivors who suffered serious crimes and abuse. We have the Criminal Code. I'm wanting to know why your government is saying that it will be the regulator that handles that, as opposed to telling the RCMP and the justice minister to do their job.
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
I don't have a problem with the regulator. What I have a problem with is the fact that we actually have criminal laws in place, and it seems that the RCMP has decided that Pornhub doesn't have to actually follow the law—there's voluntary compliance; your Attorney General says he's not even sure if they're a Montreal company; you're telling us there's going to be some kind of regulator, but you don't have one....
I just have to be honest. Having the minister of culture and communications handle a file about horrific sexual assault videos to me is like asking the minister of transportation to look after human trafficking.
Why is it that the laws of the land are just not being applied? You can go and get a regulator, but why are the laws not being applied?
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
I know, and they say you're the lead on this. They defer to you.
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
We don't have a regulator. We don't have any action. Again, what do I tell the survivors who are being told, sorry, not much is going to happen but maybe a regulator, and maybe there will be a new CRTC for porn? How long are they going to have to wait before they actually see something?
View Shannon Stubbs Profile
CPC (AB)
View Shannon Stubbs Profile
2021-06-07 12:35
I think this is probably what's mind-boggling to many of us on this committee and probably many Canadians listening. A colleague said to me recently that, somehow, organizations like ag societies and school fundraisers and Legions are put through mountains of paperwork and administration to, say, play certain songs or use certain visual material. Then there are also online sites, say, that sell cannabis or alcohol, or host gambling, and in those two cases the country seems fairly effective at having a set of laws and bylaws and policies and regulations for these organizations [Technical difficulty—Editor] seem to manage to enforce and crack down on all of that being done illegally.
View Shannon Stubbs Profile
CPC (AB)
View Shannon Stubbs Profile
2021-06-07 12:36
I would just give you the opportunity to expand on any other specific recommendations in terms of both the enforcement and protections to combat the proliferation of child sexual abuse material and other illegal content, while also maintaining free expression, privacy and the right of individuals to have ownership and choice over their own images.
View Matthew Green Profile
NDP (ON)
We've heard lots of discussion around the prevalence of CERB fraud, and yet we hear Mr. Brouillard talk about 50,000 identities stored in the dark web. Have there been any early indications or cross-reference between information that was taken through these breaches and potential fraudulent applications for the CERB?
View Matthew Green Profile
NDP (ON)
Before that happens, Mr. Chair, can I just ask Mr. Jones if something like that would be in his purview before it's passed along?
View Matthew Green Profile
NDP (ON)
I do say this respectfully, because it's not often that we have a member from the Communications Security Establishment before us. This is why I'm trying to get the most out of this intervention, because I don't know when you may be back.
Is there a scenario—this is for my own edification—where the information that might have been obtained through the CRA's vulnerabilities could then have been used to re-access fraudulent CERB applications? Maybe I'm oversimplifying it or conflating it.
I'd love to hear from you, Mr. Jones.
View Joël Lightbound Profile
Lib. (QC)
Have you seen an acceleration as a result of the pandemic? I think that this was noted in your report.
People are spending more time online, and there are more conspiracy theories, for example.
Has this affected radicalization and the rate?
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