Justice committee  Good afternoon. My name is Rosalind Prober. I'm the president of Beyond Borders, which is a volunteer, non-profit organization dealing with global child sexual exploitation. Beyond Borders is part of a multinational NGO, a non-governmental organization, called ECPAT, End Child

Justice committee  Absolutely not.

Justice committee  Absolutely not.

Justice committee  With regard to whether or not Mr. Whitmore would offend again, I mean, really; Whitmore is a hard-driven pedophile with a sexual interest in children. I just find it difficult for someone to come here--as much as I respect the view, especially around victims--and to judge someone

Justice committee  Yes, and I want to comment on historical victims, because that sort of touches me personally. The only reason why cases are historical is because of the damage done. So although I agree with David on many of the things he's saying, and really with the other folks across the roo

Justice committee  No, I'm not.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  What can I say? I have been the wife of a criminal lawyer for many years. Some things have sunk in, and one of them is that it's a war zone; the court system is a war zone. It's win or lose. There are people leaving there with high-fives and there are people leaving there like th

Justice committee  I just want to put it on the record that Beyond Borders supports all the groups who are working with sex offenders. There are some wonderful community groups out there that work with sex offenders. I'm not taking away from what they do in any way.

Justice committee  There doesn't seem to be any solid evidence about how we stop people from having sex with children, whether in Canada, or whether they take off for...wherever. I don't want to say Thailand, because everyone says Thailand, and Thailand has done a good job of trying to protect thei

Justice committee  Beyond Borders, Au-delà des frontières, is a national, bilingual NGO that works in solidarity with sexually exploited children. I am president, and I founded Beyond Borders, in 1996, with Mark Erik Hecht. Our NGO is now the Canadian arm of an international NGO based in Bangko

Justice committee  There's an appeal to the Supreme Court. I should be clear about that. So any inquiry would be if it goes to the Supreme Court. After that.... If it doesn't, hopefully then it would carry on.

Justice committee  No. The only reason I'm really raising this case is in regard to the systems that have to be in place if you're going to do extraterritorial, if you're going to have an extraterritorial law and make it effective. Everybody has to be up to speed. Everybody has to be trained. I mig

Justice committee  When you look at the issue of child sex trafficking, it is generally the local or national children in Canada who are trafficked. Certainly that is a reality. In fact, I don't think we have before the courts any cases involving trafficking of children that are not, at the moment,

Justice committee  I think if you look at the polygamists in B.C., we know full well that the polygamists in B.C., the FLDS, were going into the United States and bringing back and forth child brides. That would certainly be an incidence where criminal activity was going on and there was no legisla