Cases of child pornography violations are steadily on the rise in Canada, whether it be making, distributing, or consuming material. News headlines from across the country crop up every week revealing a new slew of child porn offenders. The Canadian Centre for Child Protection recently stated, in a summary of key findings on child abuse images over the Internet, that there has been a  “growing proliferation of child sexual abuse images and videos on the Internet” over the past 13 years.  A few weeks ago, the federal government announced in its budget that it would place “new investments” toward protecting children from abusive online images. It more recently stated it would give $4.5 million to the Canadian Centre for Child Protection to fund an effective new online program called Project Arachnid, that combs in the internet for images of child pornography so that police can more easily catch who is in possession. Ontario has some of the highest rates of child porn incidents in the country, so it’s newsworthy to understand just how many incidents have been recorded over time, and how dramatically these cases have increased. In fact, child porn offences nearly tripled between 2010 and 2016, according to StatsCan.