No worries.
I will continue my questions with CCCP and the Peel CAS.
I have volunteered countless hours over many years, supporting organizations like SAVIS of Halton. SAVIS serves as a leading agency in my region of Oakville. It's a backbone organization for the Halton Collaborative Against Human Trafficking, which brings together community organizations and partners to create a coordinated regional response to combat human trafficking. It's an organization such as yours.
Organizations like yours play a critical role in protecting vulnerable individuals and in strengthening community awareness and prevention efforts. Unfortunately, traffickers have frequently used Oakville and Burlington as transit hubs because of their proximity to major highways, moving victims between hotels along these corridors in an effort to avoid detection.
We are fortunate to have the dedicated members of our Halton Regional Police Service. I want to sincerely acknowledge and thank them for their continued work in combatting these horrific crimes.
Over the past year, I have spoken with many officials from different levels of law enforcement, and they have consistently emphasized that the child exploitation investigations are extremely complex and time-intensive. These cases can often take more than six months to resolve, particularly due to criminals' use of phones, computers, cloud services and storage devices to conceal illicit material.
From your perspective, how would Bill C-22 improve law enforcement's ability to investigate and combat child exploitation and human trafficking offences?