The National Post reports in its Thursday edition that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has softened his opposition to the proposed on-line harms bill introduced this week, but signalled that his party is still prepared to vote against it. The Post's Catherine Leveque writes that Mr. Poilievre said that Conservatives believe in criminalizing and enforcing laws against much of the "harmful content" defined in Bill C-63, specifically sexually victimizing a child or revictimizing a survivor on-line, bullying a child on-line, inducing a child to harm themselves or inciting violence. The bill also mentions "harmful content" as material "that foments hatred" and that "incites violent extremism or terrorism," but Mr. Poilievre made no mention of them. He said that criminal bans on intimate content communicated without consent, including "deepfakes" created with artificial intelligence, must be "enforced and expanded." Referring to the new entities created under the legislation, he said, "We believe that these serious acts should be criminalized, investigated by police, tried in court and punished with jail, not pushed off to new bureaucracy that does nothing to prevent crimes and provides no justice to victims."