Life would be a lot better if we all understood what our challenges are and how we could work together to resolve a lot of them.
Chair, today I wanted to.... It was a bit of a surprise in committee business. There was an issue I really wanted to discuss with our committee members to see if there was something we could do in our committee to try to resolve it.
Mr. Cooper sat with me on the justice committee many years ago when we went across the country on the issue of human trafficking and put forward some really strong recommendations. Some of those recommendations involved hotels and the hospitality sector and what their role and their accountability were in dealing with issues of human trafficking. The Hotel Association of Canada was on the Hill, meeting with MPs, and this was an issue we had brought up during our cross-country tour.
I was really hoping we could find a way to make sure that in the case of hotels, Airbnbs and other short-term stay places, not only should we know how they track their data....
Obviously, when you check into a hotel or short-term stay place, you need to provide your government-issued ID. You need to provide your credit card information. I was really hoping we could see how the privacy of Canadians is maintained there, but then also see how these short-term stay places, including hotels, Airbnbs and motels, can and do work with law enforcement to ensure that cases of human trafficking are proactively monitored—