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It targets social media specifically and would require platforms to enforce an age cutoff of 16. Supporters cited risks they described as \"real, measurable, and increasing,\" though the legislation does not yet specify the technical mechanism platforms would need to use to verify user ages.\n\nThat last point is the real story. Australia passed a similar under-16 social media ban, and the implementation question remains largely unanswered: how does any platform actually confirm a user's age without either building a surveillance apparatus or accepting that determined teenagers will route around it? Canada's bill lands in that same unresolved territory.\n\nOttawa is not the first government to table this kind of proposal, and similar laws in other jurisdictions have faced legal challenges and implementation problems. 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