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The Internet provides new tools to assist in the sale of children and youth, creates space to communicate needs of and availability of such “services,” and provides access to vulnerable people to victimize.

Recent advances in technology have had many impacts on Canadians, and on child and youth exploitation.

Current data from Statistics Canada indicate that 64% of Canadian households accessed the Internet from home, work, school, a public library or other location in 2003.

There is ongoing debate with the terms “child” and “pornography” - first, there is no universal definition of “child,” and, second, there is no universal definition of “child pornography.” Many of the cases that law enforcement deal with are multi-jurisdictional, including other countries.

The lack of definitional consensus introduces various challenges for Canadian officers as they deal with international cases.