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Andrea Chrysanthu speaks on National Child Day, a day meant to honor the rights of Canada's 8,000,000 children. She identifies herself as the chair of the board for Children First Canada. Chrysanthu states that today should be a day of celebration, but instead lingers as a day to sound the alarm. She asserts that across Canada, children are being exploited, extorted, bullied, manipulated, and exposed to dangers that no child should ever face, all because the digital spaces they occupy every day are not designed with their safety in mind.
She highlights that action has been waited on for years, and during this time, too many kids have been hurt, too many families shattered, and too many preventable tragedies have occurred. The central message is that Canada's children are in danger, and the clock is ticking. At twelve noon, a thirty- to forty-day plan is launched: the Countdown for Kids, described as a forty day national call for parliament to act because there cannot be another year sacrificing one more child to online harms. The movement is described as being driven by parents who have tragically lost their children to online harms, and by children and youth who experience these issues every day, who have been bravely advocating with the government to ensure children's rights to safety, dignity and protection are upheld.
The action requested is for the government to re-table the Online Harms Act and rename it the Online Safety Act before midnight on December 31. Chrysanthu states a call for every member of parliament and every senator across all party lines to treat this as the national emergency that it is. The call to action emphasizes accountability and cross-party consideration to address online harms and safeguard children's rights.