Justice committee  Sure. I will offer my two cents' worth. The man who pimped our daughter was known to the police. He was known to be connected to criminals in other places in Canada. He was part of a collaboration of criminals who were running girls. Yet she would not testify against him because

Justice committee  Thank you very much for this opportunity to speak today. We are honoured to be here. I'm going to take just a few minutes to tell you our story, and then Ed will speak more directly to Bill C-36. In 1990 our daughter Cheri Lynn Smith died. She was murdered. She was 18 years old