Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think the legislation must be stopped. It will have the absolute opposite effect of what you're trying to do.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Actually, there's only been one case in trafficking under the IRPA, and he was found not guilty. In fact, what we're finding among sex workers I speak to, and among those who talk to migrant sex workers, is that they know they're coming in to do this kind of work, and that immedi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can't overemphasize the problem in terms of what the bureaucracy was saying, that this would be based on evidence. It won't be. There is no evidence, hard evidence, of human trafficking worldwide. It's a huge problem. The Government Accountability Office of the United States ha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The final point was on the United Nations convention on the rights of migrant workers, which Canada is not a signatory or a party to. None of the major developed countries are. But many ascending countries are parties to it. What the convention does—it's one of the smartest conve

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for having me here today. I'm a professor of international relations and politics, and I work on human rights, gender, and trafficking in women. What I'd like to say today is that this bill will not address the problem of trafficking. It will in fact contribute to it.