Status of Women committee  You wanted to know about using the Internet, which is a great tool, but at the same time people choose to use it, for good or bad. We don't see as much advertisement as far as coming for bawdy houses, for escort services, is concerned, but I know it's there. Mostly in Toronto w

Status of Women committee  Certainly from my perspective I find that conditional sentencing, for anyone who would be involved in the abuse or sexual assault or exploitation of children, is not tolerable.

Status of Women committee  Yes. That's where I say there should be harsher penalties, stronger penalties, penitentiary time, more consistent with what they're getting in the United States.

Status of Women committee  They've changed the law recently, and there is some minimum sentencing; however, we're still dealing with cases where they are getting conditional sentences.

Status of Women committee  I'd like to say that this issue is not necessarily new, but under the words “human trafficking”, it is. I've been involved in vice work since back in 1989. We were seeing people coming from overseas back then and being prostituted in Toronto, and they were deported after the lega

Status of Women committee  I'll answer the ones you posed in my direction and also that one. It's commonly known that women in the sex trade area are moved quite often to avoid detection by the police. So they will be moved from Montreal to Toronto to Niagara Falls—to the larger urban centres where there

Status of Women committee  Good morning, and thank you for having us here. We recognize that this is an international problem, that it's multi-faceted, but we will be speaking about the areas that mostly affect women, and that's going to be about the sex trade. Under the pillars of protection and prevent