Are you comfortable with children being exposed to images of girls examining their vaginas in the mirror?  How about books that teach your child to masturbate?  Or a novel that repeatedly describes, in graphic detail, sex acts which can only be described as rape, incest and sexual assault?  What would you say is the appropriate context for showing a child a drawing of an adult man, kneeling, with his belly bulging over his exposed testicles?  

These sexually explicit books are being made available to kids through our Winnipeg Public Libraries.

Our laws were made to protect our children.  The Criminal Code of Canada makes it clear that child pornography is illegal and teaching a child under 16 to perform sexual acts is illegal.  

Sign the petition.  Let’s get pornographic materials and book that teach sexual touching to kids off the shelves and online selections of the Winnipeg Public Libraries. 

These are our children. Our bottom line. Our future. Enough is enough.  Say ‘NO’ to sexually explicit books being made available to our kids.

 

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To see what has been presented to the South Central Regional Library, click the following link: https://youtu.be/zMTnL7xYtv4 *Please note that this video is intended for adult audiences only and is not appropriate for children.

 

WHEREAS the Criminal Code of Canada, Section 163, defines child pornography as, “… a visual representation that shows a person who is under the age of eighteen years and [who] is… depicted as engaged in explicit sexual activity… Or where… the dominant characteristic is the depiction of a sexual organ, or the anal region, of a person under the age of eighteen years…”;

AND WHEREAS Section 163 of the Criminal Code of Canada also defines child pornography as, “any written material whose dominant characteristic is the description of sexual activity with a person under the age of 18 years OR the written depiction of underage individuals engaged in explicit sexual behavior…”;

AND WHEREAS Section 152 of the Criminal Code of Canada states that, “Every person who, for a sexual purpose, invites, counsels or incites a person under the age of 16 years to touch, directly or indirectly, with a part of the body or with an object, the body of any person, including the body of the person who so invites, counsels or incites and the body of the person under the age of 16 years… is guilty of an indictable offence…”;

AND WHEREAS the Winnipeg Public Libraries have children and youth fiction and non-fiction materials that fit the above descriptions of child pornography, pornography and instruction to sexual touching of persons under the age of 16 years;

AND WHEREAS parents/guardians have authority over their children.  They have the right and responsibility of custody, health and safety, education, providing food, caring for them, supervision and physical and psychological protection;

AND WHEREAS the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child, of which Canada is a signatory, states that governments and government entities, including libraries, “…shall respect the responsibilities, rights and duties of parents… to provide, in a manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the child, appropriate direction and guidance…”;

AND WHEREAS Manitoba library policies which call upon, “expression of knowledge” do not supersede the rights of a child, the rights of a parent, nor the Criminal Code of Canada;

AND WHEREAS Manitoba libraries, including the Winnipeg Public Libraires, lack the protocol to ensure parents can screen for any of the sexual content mentioned above, the lack of protocol contravenes parental human rights and is a violation of the Criminal Code of Canada to make them available;

WE, the undersigned, therefore, based on Canadian law and parental/guardian rights, request that that juvenile books in all Winnipeg Public Libraries that display sexually explicit images, contain sexually explicit content or instruct on sexual touching, be removed from library stacks and from the online library system and that a policy be put in place to ensure that sexually explicit materials and materials that contravene the Criminal Code of Canada, are not made available to children and youth in the future.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/pdf/c-46.pdf