Trudeau slams Poilievre over age veification for porn

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Trudeau takes a swipe at Poilievre over his stance on age verification for porn.

Poilievre supports a law that would require age verification before accessing pornography online.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that adults shouldn't have to share their personal information to access pornography online.

Speaking at a housing announcement in Cape Breton, Trudeau said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's endorsement of some sort of age-verification system for porn sites is something his party opposes.

"He's proposing that adults should have to give their ID and personal information to sketchy websites, or create a digital ID for adults to be able to browse the web where they want," Trudeau said of Poilievre.

"That's something we stand against."

Trudeau said Poilievre is "playing politics" by opposing the government's forthcoming online harms bill — which is meant to combat hate speech, terrorist content and some violent material on the internet — while also endorsing a crackdown on some other online content.