Ms. Nathalie Levman at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On February 27th, 2019. See this statement in context.

February 27th, 2019 / 4:15 p.m.

Senior Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Policy Sector, Department of Justice

I'm not sure I understand exactly. In the trafficking provisions, it specifically states that victim consent is irrelevant. It's a basic principle of criminal law that, if you are exploited, and by that I mean according to the definition in section 279.04, even if you consented to the conditions that created your exploitation, that doesn't make it not a criminal offence. It's still a criminal offence.

Could you clarify what your concern is about consent?

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