Justice committee  I think Monsieur Ménard had a brief question for Michel.

Justice committee  Yes. Let me just raise two quick points. We often call organized crime a cancer. Well, how do you fight cancer? You fight cancer with cancer specialists. You train doctors, you set up special institutions, and then you make sure there's cooperation so there's not just one docto

Justice committee  It's a modern form of slavery.

Justice committee  The issue of human trafficking, which is domestic, is basically modern slavery, in that the organized crime groups, criminal enterprises, usually control every aspect of that young woman's life. They are literally branded the way the slaves once were. I've been focusing a lot in

Justice committee  A senior RCMP person was quoted in one my earlier books saying that Canada is largely regarded as Maytag of the north. In other words, we are known as a major and very easy place for money laundering. So money is the nexus; that's why the gangsters are involved in crime and that'

Justice committee  Canadian laws in terms of child abuse and trafficking are nothing short of pathetic. I don't want to go into detail, but look at what the U.K. and the Americans do when their citizens are abroad and abuse children, or when their citizens are involved in trafficking, with the numb

Justice committee  I have to put on my other hat. I wasn't thinking of talking about child predators. Let me say briefly that most of the Internet traffic, child pornography and those kinds of crimes, is organized through networks, but not necessarily through traditional organized crime networks.

Justice committee  I'm not an expert on the situation here, but yes is the short answer, if you speak to any of the major international groups that are fighting the trafficking of young women. My next book is on trafficking and child prostitutes. We can talk about human trafficking, but the bigge

Justice committee  I have two quick points. Speed of prosecution is extremely important. There are gang trials that are dragging on in British Columbia. This also causes the problem that police officers can't be going out and investigating because they're constantly being dragged back into court.

Justice committee  In most of the major what we call the anti-gang trials, proving the predicate act, whether it's a drug deal or what not, is relatively simple. It's proving the gang connections that can be hard.

Justice committee  I think the law's a blunt instrument, and the problem with minimum mandatory or sweeping, tough drug laws.... If you look at what's happened in the States, the prisons are filled with people who got caught up, for whatever reason, but who may not be the top organized crime, the p

Justice committee  I have a plane at noon, so I could probably leave at around a quarter to.

Justice committee  If you have any specific.... You have to leave at 10:45. So the two of us have to leave at 10:45--

Justice committee  --if you have any specific questions for us.

Justice committee  Strangely enough, despite the books I've written, I'm actually not a tough law and order type, in the sense that I'm not convinced that more prison time or sentences necessarily work. But they can be important, and I think what we're forgetting is that they're important not just