Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're going to go back to empowerment. I think we need to teach our boys not to rape. I think it just goes.... It's not about our little girls. Why is it always our females who have to bear the brunt of men's bad behaviours? I think we need to have “buyer bewares” throughout Cana

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's a lot of money. I'm seeing millions of dollars for initiatives, but nobody has opened up an on-site, three-siloed safe space for women. I can't send these women to battered women's shelters, because first of all, they're putting the other women at risk. Cross-contaminatio

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  What we're seeing is the grooming process, and the grooming process would be done by the bottom bitch. I'm going to use the terminology that traffickers use. The grooming process consists of either getting them in debt with drugs or giving them purses or whatever. I was groomed

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We do have organized crime here in Toronto and in northern Ontario. The Galloway Boys are big in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They have an infestation of Toronto gangs up in northern Ontario that are bringing girls out, but we also have Asians. The triads basically own all of the massag

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  What I'm seeing with child welfare.... I was lured out of a child welfare-run girls' home. The older girl that lured me and got me into prostitution was my older sister. Staff didn't have a clue. They were maybe five years older than some of us. They were young girls working in

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Aaniin. First I'd like to acknowledge that I am standing here on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit, who fall under the Two Row Wampum Treaty. I represent Sextrade101 and the many Anishinabe women and girls who are enslaved in prostitution and/or

Justice committee  We have a huge coalition of volunteers who will go in and remove someone from a situation or if we have a girl who's setting up and finally able to secure housing or whatever, I put the call out. I work on subcontracting through indigenous organizations to work one-on-one with su

Justice committee  —but I also speak internationally.

Justice committee  It took me a good eight years out of prostitution to realize that I had been trafficked. When we're talking about youth, and you throw a couple of hundred dollars at them, that's exploitation. To say that youth can sell sex and be youth sex workers, to me, is like saying that y

Justice committee  They just said it. They just said it earlier. They did.

Justice committee  My trafficker was organized crime. One of my traffickers is female. Her name is Sherry Taranien.

Justice committee  Aaniin. I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to be here, to be the voice for indigenous survivors of human trafficking across Canada. I'd like to acknowledge that I'm standing here on the traditional territories of the Algonquin Anishinabe nation. My name is Wasa quay. My E