TELUS takes the matter of child safety on the Internet very seriously and that is why we are working with law enforcement and other stakeholders on a number of initiatives in this area.

For example, in November 2006, TELUS and Canada's other major Internet service providers (ISPs) announced that we had joined forces with Cybertip.ca, Canada’s child sexual exploitation tipline, to launch Project Cleanfeed Canada. As a participant in Project Cleanfeed Canada, TELUS has installed sophisticated new filters which block customer access to foreign web sites that contain images of children being sexually abused and that are beyond the jurisdiction of Canadian legal authorities. Based on its widely recognized expertise in this area, Cybertip.ca has established and maintains an up-to-date list of the sites to be blocked which is incorporated automatically into the TELUS filter. Consistent with the wishes of Canadian law enforcement, Project Cleanfeed Canada does not block access to Internet child sexual abuse images hosted on servers within Canada; instead, Cybertip.ca and TELUS continue to work directly with the police in such cases and, like Canada's other ISPs, TELUS will remove any content hosted on our servers where a judicial investigation confirms such content is illegal under applicable Canadian law. Canada is one of only a small handful of countries in the world where ISPs have adopted a blocking regime like Project Cleanfeed Canada. More information can be found at Cybertip.ca and Project Cleanfeed Canada.

TELUS has always worked cooperatively with law enforcement investigating online child sexual abuse cases and we report all instances of such activity to law enforcement and Cybertip.ca.

TELUS is a top-level "Guardian" sponsor of Cybertip.ca and one of the Founding Funders of the recently-launched Canadian Centre for Child Protection. As well, we became a Gold Level sponsor and board member in 2004 of the Media Awareness Network (MNet), Canada's leading media and Web literacy organization. MNet provides resources and support for everyone interested in media and information literacy for young people. See media-awareness.ca for more information.

TELUS is also a leading member of the multi-stakeholder Canadian Coalition Against Internet Child Exploitation (CCAICE) which was formed in 2004 to develop and implement a multi-faceted national Action Plan to help in the fight against online child sexual abuse. More information about CCAICE is available in this press release and background information.

Finally, TELUS provides its Internet customers with the opportunity to easily install robust parental controls to limit access by their families to unwanted offensive and illegal Internet content here.