The largest pornography operation on earth has its world headquarters in Montreal, on the sixth floor of an office tower at 7777 Décarie Boulevard, next to the Orange Julep. It employs over a thousand people there. Most of the city has no idea.
The company is called Aylo now. Before that it was MindGeek. Its flagship is Pornhub. It was started by a handful of Concordia students and it grew into one of the most morally destructive enterprises on the continent, run out of a glass building that thousands of people drive past every day without a second thought.
Quebec Life Coalition wants Aylo out of Montreal. Getting them out of 7777 Décarie is the first step, and it is the step available to us right now.
Who we are dealing with
Laila Mickelwait, founder of the Traffickinghub movement, spent years establishing what that platform was actually hosting: material showing the sexual abuse of children, rape, and the exploitation of trafficking victims, uploaded anonymously and turned into revenue. Her petition drew over two million signatures in 192 countries. In December 2020, after an investigation in the New York Times, Visa, Mastercard and Discover all cut off payment services to the site. Within days the company deleted the overwhelming majority of its videos, millions of them, because it could not show that the people filmed had consented, or were even adults. One of the plaintiffs whose case forced this open was thirteen years old when video of her was uploaded and passed around. In September 2025 the company paid five million dollars to settle with the United States Federal Trade Commission and the State of Utah over failures in content moderation.
This is the tenant. In June a gunman opened fire in the vicinity of the Aylo offices. A police officer and a bystander were killed in the resulting exchange of gun fire. This tragedy is not the focus of this email. Rather, we want to focus on the ordinary, unfortunately legal and very profitable business conducted by Aylo / Pornhub every day of the year.
Why this is our business
Some of you may wonder why QLC is writing about pornography at all. The answer: QLC fights for faith, family and life, and porn attacks all three.
What it does to faith. Sociologists Samuel Perry and George Hayward tracked the same young Americans across three waves of a national study and found that more frequent pornography viewing predicted declining church attendance, declining importance of faith, less frequent prayer, and rising religious doubt. It held for young men and young women alike, and was strongest among the youngest. A faith rarely collapses in a single argument. It erodes, privately, in people who stop being able to look upward because of what they do in the dark.
What it does to families. Perry and Cyrus Schleifer followed married Americans through the General Social Survey from 2006 to 2014. Among those who took up pornography between waves, the probability of divorce roughly doubled, for husbands and wives alike. Every one of those divorces is a household, and in a great many of them, children.
And it is not happening somewhere else. It is happening in the pews. In 2024 the Barna Group, working with Pure Desire Ministries, surveyed nearly 3,500 American adults. It found that 54% of practicing Christians view pornography at least occasionally, against 68% of non-Christians.
What it does to life itself. Paul Wright and colleagues used two national panel studies to trace the sequence. Pornography consumption came first. A more permissive sexual outlook followed. Greater support for abortion followed that.
None of which should surprise anyone who has thought about it for ten minutes. Pornography teaches, by endless repetition, that another person is a thing for your use and that the sexual act has no consequence and owes nothing to anyone. And let no one imagine this is a male problem. Barna found women's use climbing from 39% in 2015 to 44% today, and 40% of Christian women now acknowledge some level of use. Train a generation in that lesson, sons and daughters alike, and you do not merely get lonelier people. You get a culture in which a child conceived by accident is an inconvenience to be cleared away. A person formed by pornography is not neutral on abortion. He or she has been prepared for it.
Please note: The research cited above is observational rather than experimental, and scholars still argue over how much is cause and how much is selection. That argument is real. But these studies follow the same people across years, control for the obvious confounders, and keep pointing in the same direction.
What we are asking you to do
That building has a landlord: Westcliff, a Montreal real estate group with over fifty years of history. Westcliff renovated the tower completely between 2019 and 2024, brought KPMG in as a tenant, and is now marketing 90,000 square feet to what its own literature calls a top-tier corporate tenant, advertising signage seen by 51 million motorists a year.
A landlord chooses who rents from him. It is the plain right of an owner to decide whose business operates under his name. Westcliff is assembling a premium tenant roster for that tower. It is entirely fair to put the question to them: does Aylo belong on it?
Three things:
Please be courteous-- No threats or insults. Westcliff are being asked to make a decision that is theirs alone, and people are moved by respect far more often than by threats or derision.
Sign your real name and your city. Anonymous mail is normally discarded.
Aylo / Pornhub have been in that building for years while the city looked the other way. The looking away is over.
For Life,
Georges Buscemi
President, Quebec Life Coalition
P.S. Westcliff did not put Pornhub in that building out of conviction. They put a tenant in a vacancy, the way landlords do, at a time when almost nobody was paying attention. That is exactly why this can change. Nobody at Westcliff has a reason to defend Aylo. They only need a reason to reconsider, and a few hundred courteous letters from ordinary people is a reason. It takes about a minute.
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