By The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The federal government is expected to introduce new legislation Tuesday requiring Internet service providers to report child pornography to police.

According to the reports, the law would compel Internet service providers to report sites carrying child porn images and protect the evidence for authorities. Child protection advocates have long called for new legislation that would enable law enforcement officials to track down people distributing child porn material more quickly.

A new study released last week found Canada has the second-highest number of servers hosting pornographic content featuring children.

The report by Cybertip.ca looked at over 15,000 websites containing child porn and analyzed 800 websites where pornographic pictures of children were sold.

It found that servers in the United States hosted 65 per cent of the websites, followed by Canada with eight per cent of the websites - though the photos may be taken somewhere outside the country.