Status of Women committee  I'm starting.

Status of Women committee  Definitely.

Status of Women committee  I simply want to tell you that I took part in a study on trafficking in persons in Quebec and that the findings should be known soon.

Status of Women committee  Laws obviously make it possible to send important signals to society, but a single law obviously can't really change attitudes. For example, if you raise the age of sexual consent, but don't teach young girls to know what they're doing, to say yes when that's what they really wan

Status of Women committee  In fact, we're talking about a favourable context, a context of women's poverty, pauperization and migration. These conditions are the cause of trafficking. As regards sexual exploitation and prostitution, they also result from inequalities between men and women. At bottom, it's

Status of Women committee  I'm going to answer irst. The definition problem is an abomination; no one perceives in the same way what a victim of trafficking is, particularly when we're talking about prostitution. That's what I tried to address briefly in my text, the idea that there is forced prostitution

Status of Women committee  Yes. We advocate criminalizing the clients, as in the Swedish model, in fact. It's obvious that the act alone won't address the problem. It must be combined with prevention and education programs. We can't start criminalizing clients overnight, when society constantly sends out m

Status of Women committee  I think a work visa would be a promising temporary solution, particularly since what we've learned from the research on trafficking in persons in Canada, regarding women who have been victims, is that Russian women, in particular, are highly educated and could easily find work. T

Status of Women committee  Consequently, if Canada wants to stop trafficking in human beings and to protect trafficking victims, it seems urgent that we examine those who motivate it: Canadian prostituting clients. It also seems important to understand and to analyze prostitution and trafficking as related

Status of Women committee  Thank you. One of CATHII's priorities is to examine demand. It must be understood that prostitution and trafficking are organized, developed and directed on the basis of demand by clients, who are increasingly called prostituting clients. I am starting a research project at the