We’re failing our children. Enough is enough.

Suffice to say, we will take all reasonable measures to make sure kids are safe in this country.

I believe all parties should agree on the importance of these minimum safeguards.

We know that social media can be made safe by design.

Admittedly, they play a function and a role that can be very damaging towards kids, but can also play an important function in the educational system and in the AI strategy that we are putting forward.

There were, in my mind, legitimate criticisms about inserting criminal repercussions [into the previous legislation]

We're failing our children. Enough is enough.

That is why it was so key to have a commission able to interact with industry and able to give some teeth to this law, so that we just didn't hope and pray that this would be enforced.

I think it's obvious why it's a priority. Kids are dying.

I think it suffices to say that we will take all reasonable measures to make sure kids are safe in this country.

Our parents cannot face these challenges alone, and the safety of children can’t be an afterthought.

As the commission evolves, there will be a back and forth as to what the adequacy and sufficiency of those tools are to make sure that the law is being respected.

It is very much an evolving playing field.

Admittedly, (AI chatbots) play a function and a role that can be very damaging towards kids, but can also play an important function in the educational system.

This is stuff we’ll have to do in partnership.

It is key to making sure that kids have a safer experience in this country, in their online experiences, and actually get out and play.

we will take all the reasonable measures to make sure kids are safe in this country.

The exemptions is a process whereby they would have to demonstrate that they are safe by design and that will be the process of compliance that they will enter into the commission as it gets phased up.

The measures in this bill represent, in my view, the basic expectations of parents and Canadians for keeping their kids safe online.

We have to be honest, we are behind, Canada is behind, our laws are behind the digital era.

’It’s obvious why it’s a priority. Kids are dying,’ he told reporters on Parliament Hill.

It’s obvious why it’s a priority. Kids are dying.

It’s no secret to anyone that’s been paying any attention to this, that the (United States trade representative) has identified these issues as a trade issue.

The reality is, without defending any particular point of view, that lawyers are entitled and obligated to do their jobs.

Let's make sure that the standard for this committee isn't one that is perfection, because we'd be naive to think that we can eradicate this overnight.