The Ontario Legislature has passed Bill 37, the ChildPornography Reporting Act, 2008. All three parties supported the bill.
The penalty for not reporting child pornography to theentity to be designated by the regulations can be a fine up to $50,000 and twoyears in jail.
MPP Laurel Broten singled out some important contributionsthat made this bill a reality:
I want to take a minute from the floor of the Legislaturetoday to acknowledge those who have worked every single day across ourprovince, across our country, to better protect children in Ontario.Paul Gillespie, who's the president of Kids' Internet Safety Alliance and aformer Toronto police officer, has seen more horrific images than anyone canever imagine, and Paul continues to be an important advocate on behalf ofchildren. The Canadian Centre for Child Protection and their executivedirector, Lianna McDonald, have been very supportive of the proposedlegislation and have helped bring it to fruition; the Canadian Centre for AbuseAwareness in Ontario, John Muise, the director of public safety, and EllenCampbell, their president; Beyond Borders, Rosalind Prober and the great workthat that organization is doing; the Gatehouse child abuse advocacy centre; theOntario Provincial Police; the Toronto Police Service; the Ontario Associationof Chiefs of Police, and in particular, their president, Chief Bill Blair.Today, as we stand on the floor of the Legislature to debatethis bill, we can know that Ontarians are with us in the importance placed bythem on the protection of children. A Sun Media/Nanos Research poll from May 2008found that 94% of Ontarians support the reporting of child pornography.
I want to take a minute from the floor of the Legislaturetoday to acknowledge those who have worked every single day across ourprovince, across our country, to better protect children in Ontario.Paul Gillespie, who's the president of Kids' Internet Safety Alliance and aformer Toronto police officer, has seen more horrific images than anyone canever imagine, and Paul continues to be an important advocate on behalf ofchildren. The Canadian Centre for Child Protection and their executivedirector, Lianna McDonald, have been very supportive of the proposedlegislation and have helped bring it to fruition; the Canadian Centre for AbuseAwareness in Ontario, John Muise, the director of public safety, and EllenCampbell, their president; Beyond Borders, Rosalind Prober and the great workthat that organization is doing; the Gatehouse child abuse advocacy centre; theOntario Provincial Police; the Toronto Police Service; the Ontario Associationof Chiefs of Police, and in particular, their president, Chief Bill Blair.
Today, as we stand on the floor of the Legislature to debatethis bill, we can know that Ontarians are with us in the importance placed bythem on the protection of children. A Sun Media/Nanos Research poll from May 2008found that 94% of Ontarians support the reporting of child pornography.
The full text of the bill, with amendments highlighted, isavailable here:
http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/bills/bills_detail.do?locale=en&BillID=1947
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