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Traduit de l'anglais par François Godbout Liberté de religion : Providence Health Care est poursuivie en justice par une famille et des partisans de l’euthanasie qui contestent la politique du gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique autorisant les établissements confessionnels à ne pas pratiquer l’euthanasie. L’AÉC s’est vu accorder le statut d’intervenant et a plaidé en faveur de la liberté de religion pour les établissements de santé religieux privés. Les audiences de l’aff

Traduit de l'anglais par François Godbout Statut d'organisme de bienfaisance : Le ministre des Finances nous a confirmé que le gouvernement « n'envisage pas de modifier la Loi de l'impôt sur le revenu afin de supprimer la promotion de la religion comme objectif de bienfaisance admissible, ni n'élabore activement de politique à ce sujet ». Un courriel du ministère des Finances à l’AÉC a fait écho à ce message. TheEFC.ca/CharitableStatus Nouveau projet de loi sur les crimes hai

Bill S-209, An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to pornographic material, is a private member’s bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Miville-Dechêne on May 28, 2025. It passed in the Senate on April 15, 2026, and is now in the House of Commons. This bill would make it a criminal offence to make pornographic material available, for commercial purposes, to minors online. Mainstream pornography frequently depicts violent, degrading and dehumanizing sexual conte

Traduit de l'anglais par François Godbout Espaces sans aide médicale à mourir : L’AÉC a demandé le statut d'intervenant dans une affaire concernant la capacité d'un établissement de santé chrétien de Colombie-Britannique à offrir des soins conformes à ses convictions religieuses. Les arguments de l’AÉC dans cette affaire porteraient sur la liberté religieuse institutionnelle et la capacité des institutions chrétiennes à fournir des services au public sans être contraintes de

The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls issued a call for submissions for her report on forms of sex-related violence. The EFC and the World Evangelical Alliance jointly submitted a written brief to the Special Rapporteur. It identified concerns and recommended responses to address forms of image-based sexual abuse, such as online pornography, posting of intimate images without consent, distribution of child abuse images, sextortion and AI generated ima

Traduit de l'anglais par François Godbout Mise à jour sur les questions les plus urgentes au Canada À la Cour suprême : L’AEC était à la Cour suprême en novembre avec ARPA Canada pour soutenir les lois actuelles sur la prostitution. Cette affaire concernait deux hommes reconnus coupables d'avoir procuré et profité financièrement de la prostitution d'autrui. L’AEC et l'ARPA ont fait valoir que les lois sur la prostitution, connues sous le nom de LPCPVE, protègent la dignité hu

A bill to stop internet sexual exploitation is being debated in the House of Commons. In November, the EFC submitted a brief to the Justice Committee urging them to support Bill C-270, the Stopping Internet Sexual Exploitation Act. The EFC’s brief pointed to the urgent need for the bill. There are devastating, lifelong consequences for those whose images are uploaded and distributed online. Children and youth face severe and extensive impacts when images of their abuse and ex

This submission by the EFC to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights contributes to the committee's review of Bill C-270, Stopping Internet Sexual Exploitation Act. "By requiring that the age and consent of every person depicted in sexually explicit material be verified before it is posted online, Bill C-270 puts the responsibility where it belongs," says the submission. "We urge the committee to support Bill C-270’s measures to ensure illegal content is not uploa

Traduit de l'anglais par François Godbout This article comes from Read directly: ~/Communications/Canada-Watch/The-EFC-launches-Anti-Christian-Incident-Report Mise à jour sur les questions les plus urgentes au Canada Soumission au Commissaire à la protection de la vie privée : En septembre, l’AEC a présenté au Commissaire à la protection de la vie privée du Canada un mémoire en faveur des technologies de garantie de l'âge pour protéger les enfants en ligne. L’AEC a recommandé

Many jurisdictions around the world are taking steps to protect children and youth from harmful content online. One of the ways of protecting kids and youth online is by putting in place age restrictions for violent and explicit content. Age assurance systems can be mandated by law or regulation. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) held an exploratory consultation on privacy and age assurance. The OPC takes the position that “it is possible to design and us

This article comes from Read directly: https://www.faithtoday.ca/Magazines/2024-Sept-Oct When should kids have a smartphone? How should what they see online be monitored or restricted? These are the kinds of questions parents and grandparents, as well as teachers, doctors and people concerned about the next generation, are asking. Our kids have a whole world at their fingertips. And they are spending more time online - at younger and younger ages. More than one in three (39%)

Bill S-210 died at the 2025 election call. A new iteration of the bill has been introduced in the Senate, Bill S-209.Bill S-210, An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to sexually explicit materials, is a private member’s bill introduced by Senator Miville-Dechêne on November 24, 2021. It passed its second of three votes in the House of Commons in December 2023, and advanced to be studied by a parliamentary committee This bill would have made it a criminal offence to

With any quick Google search, Canadians of any age can access sexually explicit material. Simple, often innocent search terms can bring up websites with sexually explicit content, much of it violent and dehumanizing. It is extremely easy to access in Canada, and we are seeing the devastating consequences of this on our population, especially children and youth. From March to June 2024, the standing parliamentary Committee on Canadian Heritage undertook a study on the harms

The EFC submitted a brief to the Heritage Committee in its study of online illegal sexually explicit material. The EFC called attention to the need to protect Canadians, particularly children and youth, from the range of harms associated with illegal content online. Our brief discussed how these images can have significant and harmful impacts on Canadian victims and viewers. There are devastating, lifelong consequences for those whose images are uploaded and distributed. Ill

Traduit de l'anglais par François Godbout Mettre fin à l'exploitation sexuelle en ligne : L’AEC soutient un projet de loi d'initiative parlementaire visant à obliger les producteurs et les distributeurs de pornographie commerciale à vérifier l'âge et le consentement de chaque personne représentée dans un contenu explicite avant qu'il ne soit téléchargé. Demandez à votre député de soutenir le projet de loi C-270. Voir TheEFC.ca/C-270. Projet de loi sur les préjudices en ligne

Imagine being the parents of a 13-year-old girl who is pressured to send the boy she likes an intimate video of herself. Imagine she discovers the video has been uploaded to pornography sites and viewed hundreds of thousands of times. Imagine she drops out of school and her social circle, becoming fearful, anxious, thinking about ending her life. This isn’t just imagination. The girl’s name is Serena Fleites, and she is just one of many. There are real people in vulnerable mo

The government introduced Bill C-63 on February 26, 2024. The bill has three main sections. The first enacts the Online Harms Act, setting up a new regulatory framework with responsibilities for online platforms and creating a new Digital Safety Commission and a Digital Safety Ombudsperson. This framework is focused on seven categories of online harm: intimate content communicated without consent and content that sexually victimizes a child or revictimizes a survivor, bullies

Le point sur les questions les plus pressantes au Canada Retarder l'entrée en vigueur de l’aide médicale à mourir pour maladie mentale : Un projet de loi a été adopté pour retarder de trois ans, soit jusqu'en mars 2027, l'aide médicale à mourir pour maladie mentale. Le gouvernement a accordé ce sursit parce que plusieurs provinces, territoires et groupes d'experts ont déclaré que le système médical canadien n'était pas prêt pour l'aide médicale à mourir en cas de maladie ment

The Hon. Arif Virani Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Dear Minister, We are writing to highlight the recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision in CASWLR v. Attorney General of Canada, which found all the provisions of Canada’s prostitution laws to be constitutional. The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) acted as an intervener in this case in support of the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA). We argued that buying sex is

Dear Minister, We’d like to thank you for your service to all Canadians. Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada are important and demanding portfolios. We appreciate the time and commitment they require.  We are grateful that the government is seeking to hold online platforms accountable for hosting and distributing child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) and for the non-consensual distribution of intimate images (NCDII) as part of its planned online harms legislati