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View Steven Guilbeault Profile
Lib. (QC)
The first part of your question is a very interesting one, because what we are, in fact, seeing is that these companies—many of these companies, perhaps not all of them—are using different loopholes around the world to try to get away from having to obey national laws, whether it's in Canada, Australia, Germany, Finland, France or the United Kingdom. What we want to do with the legislation will ensure that whether or not a company is Canadian, or based in Canada, or registered in Canada, or its websites are housed in Canada, if it broadcasts images and videos in Canada then the law will apply to it.
View Marie-Hélène Gaudreau Profile
BQ (QC)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My remarks will be a little different. I want to talk to you. What just happened is a concrete example. I think, or rather I know, that I'm the only one who can make this type of comment.
Our conscience is telling us that we must protect our children, our youth. We need to legislate and move quickly to do so as well. We're in the committee making the case that this is important and necessary. We're trying to speed things up, but we've lost a tremendous amount of time. You'll argue that I'm a new member of Parliament. However, the fact remains that people are watching us.
Despite our willingness to help our constituents, the political scene ensures that the pursuit of power takes precedence. We're seeing this right now. We're seeing pre‑campaigning, filibustering and so on. It's all about drawing things out. Minister Guilbeault, I believe that, in order to help our people, we should have had a meeting and a specific bill already in hand. However, we didn't even pass Bill C‑10, which I find extremely disappointing.
People back home are telling me things. If you ask the people back home, they'll tell you to stop carrying on the political games and the pursuit of power. We need to help our people. I'm ashamed of that part. I won't give up. Why won't I? Because my party is the only one that can claim that it promotes and protects the interests of Quebeckers. We aren't looking for power. On the contrary, we don't want it anymore.
That said, Minister Guilbeault, you spoke about five categories of illegal activities included in your bill. I don't know what they are and I would like you to identify them.
View Steven Guilbeault Profile
Lib. (QC)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
If I may specify, it is 11:50 and I must remind you and all members that I have a hard stop a few minutes before 12, as I must be present in the House of Commons at 12 o'clock sharp for a debate. Thank you for your understanding.
I'll respond in 15 seconds.
These are the five categories of harms that we want to address in this bill: child sexual exploitation, incitement to violence, incitement to terrorism, non‑consensual sharing of intimate content and hate speech.
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
Thank you so much, Minister.
In the examples we've had some really hard meetings with survivors sharing their stores. I look at Canada's Criminal Code. Section 162, filming people without their consent and then promoting it, is a five-year prison sentence. Section 163, selling and promoting non-consensual sexual assault videos, is a 14-year prison sentence.
I would ask you, how do you tell the survivors that it's okay for the Justice Department of Canada and the RCMP not to apply the laws to a company when they know it exists in Montreal, because some day there will be a regulator that will deal with this?
We have laws that are very clear. We're talking about very obvious issues of a breach of law. Why is it that your government has not acted?
View Steven Guilbeault Profile
Lib. (QC)
As I said earlier, the body of tools that we have to deal with this issue.... In the physical world, it's very simple. I think you and I can agree on that. It's not so simple to deal with these criminal offences in the virtual world—
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
I know, but we're not talking about buddy in his basement doing revenge porn on his girlfriend. We're talking about a well-known company that's established in Montreal and that the RCMP says is one of its voluntary partners. We're talking about a company that is established. We're not talking about idiots making online hate comments.
If we have a law in the land and your government is not willing to use it against a company that breaks that law, I don't see how we tell survivors, “Don't worry, a regulator is going to make those guys come to heel.” How do we tell them that, if the laws of the land aren't going to be applied?
View Steven Guilbeault Profile
Lib. (QC)
I think I understand your point, and I would like to respond that it's not just about the regulator. It's going to be about an entire new ecosystem to help us deal with these harms online in a way that we can't right now. The regulator is but one component of that. It's not the entirety of the system we want to propose.
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
Thank you, Minister.
Have you watched any of the testimony that we heard from the victims before this committee?
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
All right. Many of them talked about how non-consensual videos of them were put up and, overnight, had millions of views. How do you intend to combat that with a 24-hour takedown notice?
View Steven Guilbeault Profile
Lib. (QC)
Well, as stated in my mandate letter, once an illegal publication is flagged, companies will have 24 hours to take it down. Instead of the victims having to try to deal with these companies, it's going to be the Government of Canada that's going to work to ensure that they remove that. If they don't, then there will be consequences for these companies.
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
What's the prevention piece of this plan, though? How are we going to prevent these images from ending up on the Internet in the first place?
View Steven Guilbeault Profile
Lib. (QC)
I think you're asking me if we have a magic wand to prevent crime. We don't, and I believe no government—
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