Justin Trudeau will pick a fight with protesting truckers
over Covid mandates, but it seems like he won't touch the porn ID issue.
A day after Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said a
Conservative government would require porn sites to identify their users, Prime
Minister Trudeau said on Thursday that his government is taking steps to
protect Canadian children online but 'stands against' the idea of a 'digital
ID.'
Trudeau said that adults shouldn't have to share their
personal information to access pornography online.
Speaking at a housing announcement in Cape Breton, Trudeau
said Poilievre's endorsement of some sort of age-verification system for porn
sites is something his party opposes.
"He's proposing that adults should have to give their
ID and personal information to sketchy websites, or create a digital ID for
adults to be able to browse the web where they want," Trudeau said of
Poilievre.
"That's something we stand against."
Trudeau said Poilievre is "playing politics" by
opposing the government's forthcoming online harms bill — which is meant to
combat hate speech, terrorist content and some violent material on the internet
— while also endorsing a crackdown on some other online content.
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