Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
I want to follow up with Sergeant Laflamme and Ms. Mosley with respect to preliminary hearings.
You have recommended that they be done away with in order to minimize the revictimization of human trafficking victims. I asked the same question, about whether or not preliminary inquiries should be done away with, of a crown prosecutor in Edmonton who appeared before our committee last week. That crown prosecutor successfully prosecuted a major human trafficking case involving, I believe, 71 exploited workers. Her answer to me was that she found the preliminary inquiry essential to the successful prosecution of that individual. Part of the problem, she said, was that she had witnesses who were disappearing. If she had had to wait to go to trial, the witnesses she needed to get evidence from wouldn't have been available, compromising the likelihood of a successful prosecution.
I was just wondering if you might be able to comment on that, and I'd also just ask Sergeant Laflamme to comment on his experience with respect to the successful prosecution of several cases in Ottawa.