I call to order the 24th meeting of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women.
Good morning to everyone, with a special good morning to our witnesses. I very much appreciate and thank you for finding the time to appear before the committee today on this very important subject we are looking at, the issue of human trafficking.
We will go right to presentations from our witnesses. The last 15 minutes of the meeting will be left for some committee business that we need to attend to.
Members, before we hear from the witnesses, are there any comments to be made? No? All right.
I would like to welcome today the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, Deborah Isaacs, project coordinator; the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Barbara Kryszko, action alert coordinator; and from the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Irene Sushko. The Future Group is represented by Benjamin Perrin, adviser to the board; it's always nice to have males around when we're doing these interesting subjects.
Please keep your presentations down to approximately five minutes. We will hear from all of you individually, and then we will go around the table for questions and answers. If you could use your five minutes to get in as many points as possible, we would appreciate it.
We will open it up to whoever would like to speak first, your choice.
Ms. Isaacs.