I think the measures the bill proposes do not punish human traffickers. They punish the refugees who pay for human trafficking services.
Actually, in the committee meeting on April 26, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration talked about deterring passengers as the most important component of this bill. I just don't think that will work. People who pay for the services of human smugglers are motivated by desperation and fear. To deter them assumes a level of rationality, and fear and desperation are irrational. Furthermore, many of the refugees we work with do not know anything about the system before they arrive here. The measures in place in this bill assume that there are networks for distributing information abroad and that people are aware of the punitive measures before they come to Canada, which, in reality, is not the case.