By Lisa Johnson The Alberta government introduced legislation Thursday to ensure children won’t be able to access sexually graphic images in books at public libraries. Municipal Affairs Minister Dan Williams stressed at a news conference that the government isn’t banning books. He held up a page of a graphic novel with a sexually explicit example of the images they seek to restrict. “We will require that they are put behind a counter in a place that children cannot find them while wandering these libraries,” Williams said after tabling the bill. “When a family walks into a public library, they should feel confident that appropriate safeguards are in place, that their children will feel comfortable there.” He said pornographic material paid for by the taxpayer shouldn’t be accessible to children. “It’s…
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