Status of Women committee  I would totally agree.

Status of Women committee  They are getting training. We have an immigration and passport investigators course that we put on across the country twice a year. They get a full day of trafficking training there. We are working with the RCMP academy in Regina, where the cadets are, to get human trafficking on

Status of Women committee  We're looking at some countries where women aren't allowed to work. If they go to another country, they can work, but they can't work at home. So they get hooked up with a recruiter and leave their home to work in another country and become self-sufficient. That's what they think

Status of Women committee  Continue to support the efforts of federal government agencies and continue to keep it high profile. Traffickers know when we're working on something; they're a step ahead of us. If we keep it high profile, that might make them more leery about getting involved in what they do. I

Status of Women committee  Sure. I can provide you with some of the countries of victims that we're dealing with now, or have dealt with in the past, and perhaps Mr. Dandurand can speak more to the profile. The places are Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Korea, Africa, and eastern Europe. In the cas

Status of Women committee  Definitely.

Status of Women committee  No prosecutions yet, no.

Status of Women committee  In most of the cases that I'm familiar with, these are women who are coming to work because they need the money for themselves and for their families. So for a lot of these girls, they want to leave, but if they do, their families will suffer for it.

Status of Women committee  We are working with the Department of Justice to do training with law enforcement officers. We've started in Ottawa, and we'll be going out across Canada.

Status of Women committee  We have the federal interdepartmental working group on trafficking and persons that coordinates federal efforts. Province by province, they're developing regional committees to bring NGOs together with law enforcement and other provincial agencies. Those are the biggest steps t

Status of Women committee  I think it most definitely would. The biggest problem is that the women need money, and they're going to do what they can to get it. Being self-sufficient, getting job training, getting extra schooling, or anything like that would be beneficial, just to get them on their feet and

Status of Women committee  In an RCMP investigation, a woman is returned home because she wanted to be returned home. That's the reason. If we were doing an investigation, we need her here as a witness, so we wouldn't just decide we're going to send her back or deport her. As I said, she'd go back because

Status of Women committee  You're asking what we would like in order to do more. What we've been able to do so far, we've done with existing financial and physical resources. We've been able to do quite a bit, but there's so much more we can do. In British Columbia, there are two police officers who ar

Status of Women committee  The RCMP continually collects information and provides intelligence to members in the field. This is data collection at its finest. Reports are being worked on through our human trafficking national coordination centre's analyst. She's always putting something together, always ge

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. It's my pleasure to meet with you today to discuss the actions being taken by the RCMP to combat human trafficking. Human trafficking involves the recruitment, transportation, or harbouring of persons for the purpose of exploitation, typically in the sex