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This enactment provides for the licensing of Internet service
providers by the C.R.T.C. on conditions to be set by the Minister of
Industry by regulation. It also requires service providers' co-operation
to minimize the use of the Internet for the publication or proliferation
of child pornography or the facilitation of a sex offence involving a
child.
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Anyone who uses the Internet to facilitate any of the specified sex
offences involving children is guilty of an offence.
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Service providers may be required to block access to identified
portions of the Internet that carry child pornography.
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The Minister is authorized to make agreements with provinces to
assist in achieving the purposes of the Act. Special powers under search
warrants may be prescribed by the Minister to facilitate electronic
searches.
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