Status of Women committee  I was fortunate enough to be able to sit in a conference with the major banks in Ontario talking about the FINTRAC proposal. I think that's something amazing that's going on in Ontario. That's great for me, because I'm from Ontario, but what about the rest of Canada? As I said earlier, the problem of human trafficking isn't specific or unique to one province or one community.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I can definitely echo the sentiments of Mr. Flynn that survivors are expecting us to fail. When those calls come in at three o'clock in the morning to the police station, or they bring a young person there.... A few months ago, that call was coming to me. Every call made by the greater Sudbury police and the OPP covering our jurisdiction in terms of human trafficking comes to me and my team.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. Cultural sensitivity and cultural supports for any culture of an individual who is leaving a trafficking situation or who is going through a trafficking situation are so integral. We are the only non-indigenous organization to sit on the restorative justice committee with one of our local bands in Sudbury.

Status of Women committee  Every day in the victim services office in Sudbury, we get a call for a case of intimate partner violence, domestic violence or human trafficking. Often either the shelter beds are full, or a human trafficking victim doesn't fit their mandate or their policies and procedures, or they are too high-risk—they cause an increase in security risk for other people staying in the shelter.

Status of Women committee  I can definitely speak to that. I think, as we have all seen, the Amber Alert system has worked. We have it for a reason. As a country, we've adopted it for a reason, because it works. There are huge numbers of missing and murdered indigenous girls and women. With that Red Dress Alert, people's names may not end up on this ribbon.

Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely. I think if we bombard our kids, as Kathleen said, that's where our focus needs to be. The average age of entry into trafficking is 13 years old. I want you all to think about a 13-year-old in your life. Think about yourself as a 13-year-old. That is not what a 13-year-old should be worrying about.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. We can look at all of the stats from StatsCan and the information we receive through our studies and all of the data, but I would say that 90% of the victims and survivors have been of indigenous descent, so I would challenge the numbers we have in our data, and I would challenge each and every person—not only members of Parliament, but anyone who is watching this or listening to this—to take those calls to action seriously.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that question. Based on the information we get from our survivors and our victims and the family members of those who don't survive, that very small minimum of four to five years is what we're seeing for the traffickers who are put away on that charge. In that time, all of our feedback is that we haven't had anybody—

Status of Women committee  Absolutely not. We hear 100% from our victims, survivors and their family members that their healing process hasn't even begun by the time the trafficker is out of jail and looking for them.

Status of Women committee  Melanie, Deanna, Holly, Faith, Shayna, Megan. Bonjour. Aaniin. Boozhoo. Hello, Madam Chair and House members. My name is Tiffany Pyoli York and I'm the anti-human trafficking coordinator and public educator for Sudbury and Area Victim Services. I'm also the chair of the anti-human trafficking coalition in greater Sudbury.