We are on video conference.
We also have, from the Department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Paul Desautels. From the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, we have Michel Aubin and Marie-Claude Arsenault. We also have, from the Department of Public Safety, Barry MacKillop. And from the Canada Border Services Agency, we have Ken Lamontagne.
The usual way we deal with these issues, as you know.... Many of you, at least your departments and institutions, appeared as witnesses before this committee on June 11 to speak about your preparations for the 2010 Olympics in the event of trafficking. So we heard from you and we were relatively satisfied that you were on top of things, even though you said you didn't think there would be an increase because it hadn't been seen to be so in other venues where the Olympics were held.
However, some information has come from the media that suggested some of the plans were not necessarily in place, that the Vancouver Police Department had not been involved in any of the fieldwork and was not given the resources it needed to do some of the education, public awareness, and public training it wished to do. We also heard through that same media from an Ontario sex trade worker--she is not here, we don't have time to do so--who said her pimp was preparing a lot of them to travel. So whether or not there will be international trafficking, there is a question as to whether there will be national trafficking.
We've asked you to come here so we could get an update and so you could perhaps answer some questions as to the veracity of the report we've heard. We have asked the local police, the VPD, to be here to speak to their readiness and to whether they feel they have been given all the resources needed to also be ready on the ground.
Because we only have an hour, I'm going to give each group five minutes to make a quick presentation, and that includes you, Bob. Then we will have a question period, but I'll talk to you about that when it happens.
We'll start with Bob.
Welcome.