Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's a huge gap. There's a bit of push and pull, right? Some women are scared of leaving the area; they've never really left the area before. What does it mean to be out of the area? Some do feel more comforted being in the area, but my girlfriend has three kids and lives in abor

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I went to Sweden for three days. I was invited by the government to study the prostitution law they had just passed. I think we need to do two things that they did. One was public education. All across transit, in the airports and everywhere, you'd see welcome signs saying that

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Sorry. If you want to see grooming, it looks so different today from what it did 30 years ago. You need to go online. That's where it's happening. It's happening on Snapchat, on Twitter. It's happening online. The best resource to find out what grooming looks like right now is a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's probably a bit different out here in B.C. We do have organized crime. I wouldn't say it's 100%. There are a lot more “Romeo” boyfriends and there's a lot more grooming of girls at 17 to get them in at 18. There's a bit of a different dynamic out here.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Child welfare, in the simplest of terms, is a complete, unmitigated disaster. It is horrible. I was at my mom's house. Someone came and told me to pack my stuff in a garbage bag, and 45 minutes later I was in a house where I didn't know anyone. There was some guy who kept grabb

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you so much for having me. I just found out I was going to do this late last week, so like the speaker before me, I have notes that are a little cobbled together. I hope you'll have patience. Six minutes is not enough time, but I hope I have constructed something vaguely

Justice committee  We have to do something. Just like we owed it to my mother to implement domestic violence laws when she was being beaten, we need to protect the women who are involved in prostitution right now by passing laws that stand and interfere with the abusive behaviour inflicted on them.

Justice committee  It is changing behaviours and it's changing a mindset. When I was growing up there were no domestic assault laws. Now there are domestic assault laws. The way my sons grow up and the way men treat women in this country is different because of those laws. Laws set a trajectory in

Justice committee  I think we have to have a fundamental shift. I think we need a core shift in the way men view women and in the way women are viewed. I was in Sweden. I actually went to Sweden maybe three or four years ago to do a film with the National Film Board of Canada called Buying Sex. We

Justice committee  I think that is Ms. Kiselbach's experience, and I'm not here to argue with that. I can only talk from my perspective and say that I've never met a pimp who was beneficial for a prostituted woman. You're economically relying on someone else for your well-being, I don't think tha

Justice committee  May I ask you to clarify it, just to make sure I understand the question? You're asking if we agree with section 213 staying on, because police say they need it in order to exit a woman from a precarious situation, that it's a tool they can use to do that.

Justice committee  I would say that the police can charge the men as a tool to keep the woman in a situation that may be safer than the one she was formerly in. I don't think there need to be any criminal sanctions against the woman whatsoever in order to provide her some level of safety. I think c

Justice committee  I'll just quickly tell a story. I had done a date, and I was in a car. I thought he was reaching underneath his seat to get a wallet to pay me. I kind of remember the crowbar as it came through the air and cracked me in the chest, but I don't specifically recall it. I don't remem

Justice committee  Sorry, it's a little overwhelming in here.

Justice committee  My name is Trisha Baptie, and I want to thank you for inviting me to be a part of this process. I would also like to acknowledge the Algonquin peoples, who are the traditional caretakers of the land on which we stand. I am here today as a representative of an organization calle