An Act to enact the Online Harms Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Human Rights Act and An Act respecting the mandatory reporting of Internet child pornography by persons who provide an Internet service and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts

Bill C-63 (Online Harms Act) was the Trudeau government's flagship 2024 internet-content statute introduced by Justice Minister Arif Virani on February 26, 2024 after years of revisions following the 2021 Liberal election commitment. Would have created a Digital Safety Commission with authority to order platforms to remove seven types of harmful content (child sexual exploitation, intimate-image non-consensual sharing, content that incites violence, content that foments hatred), required age-restricted-content platforms to verify user age, and amended the Criminal Code to add a new hatred motivated by hate offence with life-imprisonment maximum. Stalled in 44-1 over Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Open Media Charter section 2(b) free-expression concerns.

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