Health committee  Good afternoon, Chair, committee members. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you from a law enforcement and public safety perspective regarding Bill C-45. My name is Trevor Bhupsingh. I'm the director general of law enforcement and border strategies at Public Safety Canad

Health committee  I think we do, but keeping in mind that it is a difference of 100 years and we're dealing with different players and groups. Now we're creating a regime with a legalized supply of cannabis, so our sense is that we want to get that framework put into place. We want to have safe

Health committee  I do understand those treaties, and I understand that there are discussions going on with Global Affairs and Health Canada with those international organizations around those conventions and the way forward for Canada.

Health committee  I would just say that we're in discussions with various organizations. The provinces and the territories have the flexibility to engage in discussions with organizations that control such things as landlord and tenant acts, etc. With respect to the airlines that you mentioned, ag

Justice committee  Good afternoon, Chair. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to the committee and its members. Human trafficking is a criminal offence and a human rights violation. In Canada, indigenous and non-indigenous women and girls, LGBTQ2 members, and youth, including those in group hom

Justice committee  That's probably best answered by law enforcement, by the RCMP Commissioner, but I would just say that I think we are. I think the number of charges being laid is up. I think it's a difficult crime to prosecute for a number of different reasons. One is just the general sense of vi

Justice committee  Sure. I'll just turn it over to my colleague Michael Holmes, and then perhaps Ms. Crampton might have some observations as well, largely because they are tied to some of the international engagement.

Justice committee  I think one of the first things, which we've talked a little bit about, is really getting ourselves organized around the definition of human trafficking. We've heard this from the discussion just in terms of the collection of data and information. We want the advice that we're pr

Justice committee  Again, it's just another situation where you may have individuals who are vulnerable largely because they don't have a support structure around them and who, in group homes, potentially could be convinced to traffic. In fact, we have heard of some cases where there have been pred

Justice committee  Potentially.... For the committee, Arachnid is basically an Internet web crawler that goes through and identifies images that have previously been identified to the Internet service provider as involving the sexual exploitation of children. The web crawler goes through and iden

Justice committee  I can just offer general comments. Yes, I think new encryption technologies cause difficulties by hiding a lot of this information that law enforcement or others might use in pursuing some of these investigations. In general, yes, I think it's difficult, but we're developing all

Justice committee  Absolutely.

Justice committee  Why don't I start, and then I'll turn it to my colleagues? You mentioned the stats. Just to give you a sense, we talked about the body of human trafficking cases. Ninety five per cent of those are domestic cases and roughly 5% of them are international. The majority of the domes

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to appear before the committee as you review the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act. My name is Trevor Bhupsingh, and I'm the director general of law enforcement and borders at Public Safety Canada. With me tod

Finance committee  Unfortunately, it's out of my realm of professionalism to answer that. It's really a question for the Department of Finance to answer about the regulatory system and the management of the banking system.