Justice committee  I was just going to add—and I know Joy will agree—we really shouldn't leave here without acknowledging the Salvation Army for their work against human trafficking in the streets.

Justice committee  I think the Supreme Court will clean it up.

Justice committee  And after that, we have to figure out whether Canada is up to speed in handling a case like that.

Justice committee  You can read a legal analysis of this case by Jonathan Rosenthal on our website. Beyond Borders' view is that the Court of Appeal of Nova Scotia absolutely mangled the law on delay. We had an individual in flight from—

Justice committee  I'm overtalked. Our lawyer here knows about this.

Justice committee  I want to add that in general there are only so many dollars to go around, there are only so many prosecutors, etc. The general principle is that wherever the person was caught, that country—say, for example, a Canadian in Bangkok, Thailand.... And we have one in Bangkok, Thail

Justice committee  I want to say that, having worked, Mark and I, on the child sex tourism legislation, when we were doing that a lot of the folks who were opposed thought the sky was going to fall if you did this. But the reality is that the alternative is to have your country as a safe haven for

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

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  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 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  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  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