Justice committee  We're working together, but I'm starting.

Justice committee  Thank you. We are nurses from Nova Scotia. We have 21 years of grassroots experience. We're human rights defenders. We're also members of the Canadian Federation of University Women, which is an NGO of approximately 8,000 women across Canada, and they support us in what we're sp

Justice committee  The ones that were beaten up?

Justice committee  They weren't adults when the torture started, but they were adults when we met them.

Justice committee  No, most of them were infants actually.

Justice committee  The majority.

Justice committee  Absolutely.

Justice committee  I'd be sick about it. I think we have to remember that the majority, and it goes from 90% to 97% of the women who are prostituted, endure violence. We have to always remember to think of the majority, not the 3% to 10% who say it's work. As far as torture is concerned, if women

Justice committee  We absolutely have to do something. This is an evolutionary process of seeing violence against women and children from spouses, etc., and child and human trafficking, being addressed in new legislation. There are statues of the “Famous Five” close to where we are now, and in th

Justice committee  Thank you. First, I want to say that Jeanne and I really support the bill, and we thank Peter for bringing it forward. It is an important piece of work. In the three recommendations we have in the brief that we submitted to the committee, we would agree with the 14-year sentenc

Justice committee  I thought we were here as individuals.

Justice committee  We've been told by victims who have gone to court that torture named in their victim impact statement was redacted from their statement. They weren't allowed to use the word in court. We know now from research that, when you use a word, it changes your brain, so when you've endur

Justice committee  I would say, but I would also say that, if we did have a crime of non-state torture in the criminal court, more people would come forward, probably, with their stories. I've also been witness to a woman talking to her lawyer about what she had endured, and many of these things th

Justice committee  I think that prevention would be possible. The groups that we know are very persistent in harming the victim. If people have children in these families and we access and save the children more quickly, the trauma that they would endure would be much less. If we have people who co

Justice committee  Yes, I do.