Status of Women committee  I can answer very quickly. There are so many cultures involved in the trafficking scenario. All these women come from really totally different climates, when it comes to objectification of women, from covering our faces to.... There are various aspects of it. It's difficult to ma

Status of Women committee  I'll just mention three things that Ms. Mourani brought up. The first is about prostitution as a career. Let's get real. I have two children, and a lot of you probably have children. Do you want to walk into your high school for career night and have prostitution listed as a car

Status of Women committee  We need to clarify smuggling and trafficking in this context. People can be smuggled into the country illegally and then they can be trafficked within this country. They can be brought in illegally as well, so we need to be aware of those two differences. But I refer to this RC

Status of Women committee  It's a big issue, because Russian organized crime and other crime rings, the Yakuza, the triads, etc., are all heavily involved in human trafficking. The Hells Angels are the major operators in Canada, and I could be risking my life by saying this. My knowledge of the issue in U

Status of Women committee  It's not only medical professionals who are not being properly informed. It's legal professionals, judges, police officers, etc. We have to do a major awareness-raising campaign. As you heard me read, trafficking victims are subject to physical abuse. AIDS has become rampant be

Status of Women committee  In answer to how men can be involved in the issue, it's an uncomfortable issue for men, because it's predominantly men who create the demand. It's therefore an ethical issue that men have to look at. Any amount of education that could be directed that way would be helpful. A lot

Status of Women committee  All right. I'll just go, then, to the wrap-up of the main points of what I feel the government should be acting on: reactivation of the Interdepartmental Working Group on Trafficking in Persons; revisiting its mandate; opening cooperation of this group with NGOs, in implementatio

Status of Women committee  I just want to say that I'm honoured to be here today, and I'm hoping to share with you some grassroots insights I've had, as a volunteer, on a topic that's more than disturbing. It's much more than despicable. I realize that the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women--Stop Huma