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This is what the AI said.
> Yes — Canada is much stricter than the US on this.
Under s. 163.1 of the Criminal Code, "child pornography" includes any visual representation (including cartoons, anime, drawings) that shows a person who is or is depicted as being under 18 engaged in explicit sexual activity. No obscenity test is required — the depiction itself is the offense.
The Supreme Court of Canada confirmed this in R. v. Sharpe (2001), explicitly ruling the law covers "purely fictional material even when no real children were involved."
So to directly answer: yes, loli and shota content is illegal in Canada — possession, accessing, distributing, and producing are all criminal offenses with penalties from 6 months to 14 years depending on the charge.
The only narrow exceptions:
Artistic/educational/scientific/medical purpose (s. 163.1(6)) — a very high bar
Self-created expressive material held strictly for private use (a narrow reading from Sharpe)
In practice, police have prosecuted Japanese nationals and Canadians for possessing anime CP, and customs actively seizes such material at the border. The key difference from the US: there's no "is it obscene?" threshold — if the character is depicted as a minor in a sexual context, it's illegal, period.
