00:07:04.440We're a long way from getting the final thing put into place here, the Digital Safety Commission.
00:07:10.920But we do know from looking at other countries that have already gone down this path that this is not effectively going to help solve the problem that they purport it's going to solve.
00:07:21.340In Australia, where they have, since I think 2023, had, for the same reasons, put in place a very similar regime of age verification and a digital safety commissioner there too.
00:07:33.420They call her the e-safety commissioner.
00:07:35.380They have essentially had no measurable success from this program.
00:07:40.920something in the order of three quarters of kids are getting around the ban who should be affected
00:07:47.640by it and then two-thirds have accounts that continue to exist on these platforms they haven't
00:07:53.160been taken down so the kids are getting around it anyway and frankly it's it can be even more
00:07:59.480dangerous because some of them may turn to sources and sites that are that are um you know on the
00:08:05.240the dark web or whatever to try and get around it or find other ways of getting access using VPNs
00:08:11.700and different things. So it's not an effective tool, but what it does, what it's done in Australia
00:08:16.460and what it will do here is it will empower bureaucrats like the eSafety Commissioner in
00:08:21.460Australia to regulate content for everybody, not just the kids. And once you have a system in place
00:08:28.040that is designed to check ID for under 16s, well, of course, everybody's going to have to produce
00:08:34.340their identification in some form to prove that they're not under 16. So it isn't just affecting
00:08:41.340the kids, it affects every single user of the internet in Canada. There's so much here. Let's
00:08:48.420start with people who I can kind of hear in the comments who are rightly playing devil's advocate
00:08:53.940and questioning, that's very good to do, saying, okay, but you know, aren't you taking this too
00:08:59.280far? Won't this just be protecting kids from online predators? Yada, yada. I will point out
00:09:05.460an example. So it's hard to remember during lockdowns and stuff, but I remember distinctly
00:09:11.800that the Taxpayers Federation, we were going after things like carbon taxes, as we do.
00:09:17.340And then we found in a government report, the government wrote this report. It was recommending
00:09:23.580to itself that it create a big pickup truck and SUV tax, a special tax on the sale of new SUVs
00:23:37.800But the point is, there were a lot of even worse things in Bill C-9, and we did manage to get some things changed by being vocal and getting submissions out and so on.
00:23:47.640So support your local civil liberty groups and try and encourage them as well to get submissions in and push back.
00:23:55.900Because intelligent and reasoned submissions do attract the attention of the politicians.
00:24:03.960Of course, the Liberal government has a majority and they can do essentially what they want.
00:24:08.560But, you know, hopefully there'll be some pressure, some good, solid public pressure on this.
00:24:13.920I think I would say to parents, too, look, yes, the Internet is a problem.
00:24:19.200Social media can be a problem for your kids.
00:24:20.720I understand that and I'm sympathetic to that.
00:24:23.780But don't give the government the ability to do something that isn't actually going to protect your kids.
00:24:31.060You have to stay vigilant as a parent.
00:24:32.660You need to know what your kids are doing and you need to put the tools in place, parental
00:25:57.420There's a big active one over in the UK.
00:25:59.640I think they might have been the originators of the free speech union.
00:26:03.300So go make sure you follow those groups because those examples I gave you of even the Taxpayers Federation that fights on money issues.
00:26:11.960We've bumped into government before where they've tried saying, oh, that's misinformation or disinformation.
00:26:17.200And we deal with whistleblowers, people who are reporting what's going on with corruption, lack of accountability, government waste of money.
00:26:28.320what would happen if those whistleblowers weren't allowed to be anonymous anymore
00:26:33.840that's a huge problem so that is why we need to be able to express ourselves freely in canada
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