The text of the bill

Defence — age verification or age estimation

7 (1) It is not a defence to a charge under section 5 that the organization believed that the young person referred to in that section was at least 18 years of age unless the organization implemented a prescribed age-verification or age-estimation method to limit access to the pornographic material made available for commercial purposes to individuals who are at least 18 years of age.

(d) collects and uses personal information solely for age-verification or age-estimation purposes, except to the extent required by law

pornographic material means any photographic, film, video or other visual representation, whether or not it was made by electronic or mechanical means, the dominant characteristic of which is the depiction, for a sexual purpose, of a person’s genital organs or anal region or, if the person is female, her breasts, but does not include child pornography as defined in subsection 163.‍1(1) of the Criminal Code. (matériel pornographique)

Sexualizing women’s breasts!?!? The senator is a prude.

Just read about this this morning, might contemplate another switcharoo.. https://agelesslinux.org/

This age verification has been talked about for years now, but this is just privacy invasion with a veil of "save the children", which it won't help in the least. Education and parenting might help with protecting the children, but a good number of parents don't have the time as they did 40-50 years ago due to suppressed wages over a lifetime and as such -both- parents now work more hours than their parents/grandparents had to.

From https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/S-209/first-reading

Age-verification and age-estimation methods
(2) Before prescribing any age-verification or age-estimation method under paragraph (1)‍(b), the Governor in Council must ensure that the method
(a) is highly effective;

they'll bullshit their way through that one, no way you can make that "highly effective". It's all political posturing with the "protect our children" pretext, with the goal of eroding privacy without accomplishing the initial goal whatsoever.

spreading like virus smh

We'll see how it plays out but I am at least heartened by sections e and f, especially as they explicitly mention photo based methods of age verification earlier in the bill, which means you don't necessarily have to provide ID.

Age-verification and age-estimation methods

(2) Before prescribing any age-verification or age-estimation method under paragraph (1)‍(b), the Governor in Council must ensure that the method

(c) maintains user privacy and protects user personal information;

(d) collects and uses personal information solely for age-verification or age-estimation purposes, except to the extent required by law;

(e)  limits the collection of personal information to what is strictly necessary for the age verification or age estimation ;

(f)  destroys any personal information collected for age-verification or age-estimation purposes once the verification or estimation is completed ; and

(g) generally complies with best practices in the fields of age verification and age estimation, as well as privacy protection.