Cybertip.ca is Canada's national tipline for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children. The tipline is owned and operated by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, a charitable organization dedicated to the personal safety of all children.

Cybertip.ca accepts and addresses online and telephone reports from the public regarding:

• Child Pornography (images of child abuse)
• Online luring
• Child exploitation through prostitution
• Travelling to sexually exploit children

For more information on these incident types, please click here.

On average, Cybertip.ca receives over 700 reports and 800,000 hits to its website per month. All reports that are in contravention of the Criminal Code (Canada) are sent to police for possible investigation. As of January 2008, reports to the tipline had resulted in 43 arrests and the removal of 2,850 websites from the Internet.

On February 28^th, Bill C-2 received Royal Assent and legally raised the age of protection from 14 to 16 years. This day not only marked a historical step towards protecting our youth from adult sexual predators, but also a day of triumph for local political lobbyist, Lisa Brinkerhoff. 

Music video raising awareness of the sexual exploitation of children and youth. For more information, please contact the Onyx Program at onyx@plea.bc.ca. Or visit www.childrenofthestreet.com or www.safeonlineoutreach.com

Sexual exploitation can take many different forms, and you may be surprised to find out that it doesn’t always involve the exchange of sex for money. When we think of sexual exploitation we often think of things like prostitution and pornography, which are one part of sexual exploitation. It can also involve more understated things like the exchange of sexual favours for drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, food, a place to stay, or acceptance into a peer group. All of these practices can be demeaning, degrading, and often life-threatening to the youth who is involved.

Sexual exploitation of youth is against the law! In Canada, anyone under the age of 18 cannot consent to sell their body for sexual purposes. Sexual exploitation is a form of sexual abuse, and is never the fault of the young person involved.