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I wouldn't promote something I could go to jail for.
V. Child pornography
There is no distinction in the Criminal Code concerning the level of pornography involving child
pornography. Therefore, an erotical material that falls under the definition of child pornography is
regulated under Section 163.1 of the Criminal Code.
According to Section 163.1 of the Criminal Code, there is child pornography when a child under or
depicted as being under the age of eighteen (18) is the subject of pornography-material for a
sexual purpose.
Subsections 163.1 (2), (3), (4) target four groups of people who are involved in child pornography,
namely producers, distributors and sellers, and possessors of the illegal material.
Subsection 163.1 (2) that makes it an offence to create child pornography, reads as follows
" Every person who makes, prints, publishes or possesses for the purpose of publication, any child
pornography is guilty of :
a) an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten
years ; or
b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.
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