L'Assemblée nationale du Québec - Commission spéciale sur les impacts des écrans et des réseaux sociaux sur la santé et le développement des jeunes

Impacts of screens and social media on young people

The Committee tables its final report

On May 29, 2025, the Select Committee on the Impacts of Screens and Social Media on Young People’s Health and Development tabled its final report in the Assemblée nationale du Québec.

The report contains 56 recommendations on the issues that were examined by the Committee.

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Issues being examined by the Select Committee

  • Young people’s screen time
  • Screen time control measures, in particular at school and on the Web, including access to digital learning tools
  • Access to social media, including video games
  • Cyberbullying, including the sharing of sexually explicit material
  • Minors having access to online pornography
  • Mechanisms used by certain applications to create an addiction
  • Ads targeting children on platforms and applications

View the work of the Select Committee

From fall 2024 to spring 2025, the Committee heard some 70 persons and organizations in the context of special consultations and public hearings.

  • Watch the testimonies.
  • Consult the briefs submitted to the Committee.

The Committee will hold a second phase of special consultations and public hearings in winter 2025.

Online consultation data

The Select Committee conducted an online consultation from October 31, 2024, to January 31, 2025. 7,075 people participated as respondents. One of the main purposes of the questionnaire was to help gauge public opinion on various subjects under consideration by the Committee.

The Committee has chosen to make public the data collected through the online consultation. The methodological note presents the questions, the answer choices and the variables in the data.

Tour of primary and secondary schools

During the weeks of November 4 and 18, 2024, the members of the Committee toured some 20 schools to meet with elementary and secondary school students in six regions: Bas-Saint-Laurent, Capitale-Nationale, Côte-Nord, Gaspésie, Grand Montréal and Outaouais.

The members of the Committee talked with young people from Elementary 5 to Secondary 5 in schools representing a diversity of milieux, including public and private schools, and Francophone and Anglophone schools.

Members of the Select Committee

The Select Committee was dissolved when the final report was tabled on May 29, 2025. The Committee was made up of MNAs (parliamentarians) from all the parliamentary groups represented in the Assemblée nationale.

Its steering committee, which was responsible for organizing the Committee's work, also included MNAs from those groups.

If you have any requests or questions, you can still contact the Committee Secretariat at csesj@assnat.qc.ca.