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Motion 47: Pornography Study Tag

15 Sep 2017 Infographic: Our Government is ignoring these facts about the impacts of pornography

Posted at 11:49h in Bills and Motions, Gender and Sexuality 0 Comments

Earlier this year the Federal Health Committee responded to Motion 47, the motion put forward by MP Arnold Viersen to study the public harms of pornography. Motion 47 was passed last year unanimously in the House of Commons. This motion had a lot of promise, and we were excited about what would result. As we reported earlier this year, the response from the Health Committee was absolutely inadequate, and betrayed a serious lack of concern on the part of the government about the issue of pornography and its impacts on...

13 Jun 2017 ARPA Reacts to Release of Health Committee Report on Pornography

Posted at 14:55h in Bills and Motions, Gender and Sexuality 0 Comments

https://youtu.be/kaZgSroMjDg The Health Committee response to Motion 47 was released today. Motion 47 you may remember was passed last year unanimously in the House of Commons. Unfortunately, this report falls flat on its face. The recommendations of this report portray a serious lack of analysis of the issues that Motion 47 sought to address. In fact, the only recommendations seem to be passing the job off on the provinces with yet more sexual education curriculum, as if that somehow solves all societies moral problems. It is frustrating that our secular culture’s only...

13 Jun 2017 Parliament produces useless report on harms of violent porn

Posted at 06:00h in Bills and Motions, Gender and Sexuality 0 Comments

Josh Gilman, Strength to Fight Parliament's Health Committee has tabled its report on the public health effects of graphic online pornography on children. The Committee spent several months this spring hearing testimony on the issue, after the House unanimously passed a motion calling for such a study. The motion was put forward by Alberta MP Arnold Viersen. But Viersen says the report is a huge disappointment, because it got sidetracked on the issue of gender identity. “Three out of the four recommendations talk about (the need to) have gender-based analysis. That the...

21 Feb 2017 Bigotry in the Senate?

Posted at 06:15h in Blog, Politics 0 Comments

Senator Marilou McPhedran Senator Don Plett Senate Speaker George Furey There was an emotional debate in the Senate last week about language and choice of words. On the feature this week, we present an edited version of that debate, which started when Manitoba Senator Don Plett rose on a point of order. ---- Senator Plett: Yesterday in this chamber, a senator in her maiden speech, her first speech in the Senate, accused me of bigotry… To attribute such a serious charge as bigotry to the phrase "these people" is preposterous, and I will read what I...

21 Dec 2016 M-47 Passes Unanimously!

Posted at 10:07h in Bills and Motions, Gender and Sexuality 0 Comments

Motion 47, introduced by MP Arnold Viersen this past spring, asks the Health Committee to examine the public health effects of the ease of access and viewing of online violent and degrading sexually explicit material on children, women, and men and report its findings to the House no later than July 2017. The motion went for a final vote in the House of Commons on Thursday, December 8, and passed unanimously. This study will mark the first time in 30 years that Parliament has studied the issue of pornography in...

14 Nov 2016 Ask Your MP to support M-47

Posted at 11:04h in Action Items, Bills and Motions, Gender and Sexuality 0 Comments

On Monday, October 24, the folks at Hope for the Sold held a Parliamentary screening of Over 18 in Ottawa. There were almost 50 people in attendance, including MPs, Senators, and staffers, representing a cross-section from all 5 parties. This is a very decent turnout for a Parliamentary event, considering the hectic schedules of MPs and Senators. Many of you encouraged your MP to attend - thank you! Read the update from Hope for the Sold here. We have a few short weeks left to engage with MPs and ask them to support this important motion...

30 Mar 2016 MP Arnold Viersen: M-47 to Tackle Violent and Degrading Sexually Explicit Material

Posted at 20:15h in Bills and Motions, Gender and Sexuality 0 Comments

MP Arnold Viersen, from Neerlandia, Alberta, has introduced a motion in the House of Commons regarding online violent and degrading sexually explicit material. Motion M-47 reads as follows: That the Standing Committee on Health be instructed to examine the public health effects of the ease of access and viewing of online violent and degrading sexually explicit material on children, women and men recognizing and respecting the provincial and territorial jurisdictions in this regard and following completion of its study, report back to the House no later than July 2017. Violent and degrading...