Thank you, Madam Chair. I thank all of you for your testimony.
My question is for Mr. Perrin. In your recommendations, on page 8 of your brief, you say, and I quote:
With recent amendments to the Criminal Code and the CIC Interim Guidelines, a basic legal framework is now in place and will allow Canadian authorities to begin to address the challenge of human trafficking.
We met a morality investigator from the City of Montreal Police Department last week, I believe. He seemed to be saying that the law was not very effective in helping them do their work. In fact, he clearly stated that the section of the Criminal Code on human trafficking was not used at all by the MPD.
Is the law really effective? Should improvements be made to the Criminal Code? To what section of the law? Is it the one on procuring, trafficking or having a bawdy house? Firstly, what should be amended, concretely, in the act, in the Criminal Code?
Secondly, what must we do so that sex tourism abroad and the actions of persons who partake in sex tourism do not remain unpunished? What needs to be changed in the law?
Lastly, you say that the Interdepartmental Working Group on Trafficking in Persons (IWGTIP) — and you will correct me on this if I am wrong — is ineffective, in some ways, or has simply not fulfilled its mandate well. You propose to replace it by the Canadian Counter-Human Trafficking Office.
I would like to understand what this office would be and what it would do differently from the IWGTIP that would make it more effective.