Justice Committee on Sept. 22nd, 2016

[Jeanne Sarson]

I have a comment about the burden of proof.

I think we have to start somewhere, and right now there is some proof that infants and young children are being tortured in the pornographic industry. Even if we started there, we would start opening up society to the knowledge that such atrocities are happening. They have the data at the National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre. This is visual data, data the police have and this country has. They can use that and start charging the families, which are the most frequent perpetrators, or the friends who perpetrate. You could start charging them for torture and the burden of proof starts developing more easily.

[The Chair, Liberal, Anthony Housefather]

Thank you very much, Ms. MacDonald and Ms. Sarson, for coming all this way to testify before us. We very much appreciate your being here. We have listened carefully to what you've had to say. In the same way, we have listened to the sponsor of the bill, Mr. Fragiskatos. We look forward to continuing our deliberations on the bill at our next meeting.

The meeting is adjourned.