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S-209 — An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to pornographic material
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S-209
An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to pornographic material
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BILL S-209
An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to pornographic material
Last activity : At second reading in the House of Commons
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Senate · 1st2025-05-27Senate · 2nd2025-06-12Senate · 3rd2026-04-15Commons · 1st2026-04-30Commons · 2ndCommons · 3rdRoyal assent
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What it does, in plain language
- Creates an offence for any organization that makes pornographic material available online to someone under 18 for commercial purposes.
- Sets fines at up to $250,000 for a first offence and up to $500,000 for a second or later offence.
- Allows an organization to avoid conviction only if it used an age-verification or age-estimation method set out in regulations, or if the material serves a legitimate scientific, medical, educational or artistic purpose.
- Excludes services that only incidentally allow users to search for, transmit or store content, such as search engines.
- Tasks a designated federal enforcement body with issuing a non-compliance notice giving the organization 20 days to fix the problem and respond.
- Lets that body ask the Federal Court to order Internet service providers to block access in Canada, and the block may extend to all users and to other content from the same organization.
- Requires the responsible minister to table an annual report in Parliament listing the number of notices, court applications and their outcomes.
- Requires approved age-checking methods to be highly effective, run by an arm's-length third party, limited to strictly necessary data and followed by destruction of personal information, with the law taking effect one year after royal assent.
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Registered lobbying
2 communications · 2 organizations
as of Sep 10, 2026
the 2 most recent +
Canadian Centre for Child Protection Inc.1Google Canada Corporation1
2026-02-23 · Senate of Canada
Canadian Centre for Child Protection Inc.
Met with : Julie Miville-Dechêne — Senator
2025-10-29 · Senate of Canada
Google Canada Corporation
Met with : Julie Miville-Dechêne — Senator for Québec
Communications reported to the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying that name this bill. Lobbying is a lawful, publicly registered activity — this count is a fact, not a verdict. Only communications whose description names both the bill number and its title are counted, so the real total may be higher. Registry archive read on September 10, 2026; the Commissioner republishes it about monthly, and we refresh it by hand.
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