Foreign Affairs committee  I would have to get back to you on that. I don't know if they were reported to the police. That's what we heard when we had testimony and we did research. That's when it showed that there were a few cases. St. Mike's said they had cases, and the hospital in Vancouver said that th

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for that question. I couldn't agree with you more. That's why when we had the original bill, we did suggest that if a doctor sees one of their patients who was on the list for an organ transplant all of a sudden take their name off, the doctor should be reporting it. I

Foreign Affairs committee  Currently, there is no law that bars people from going abroad to get an organ. I think it's happening in different parts of the world. Canadians are going. They are going to China. They are going to India. They are going to Pakistan. They are going to other countries to get organ

Foreign Affairs committee  I agree with you. I should have had witnesses. The bill had been looked at earlier, so you could have had witnesses. I'm not a lawyer. When we looked at this bill and we travelled, we were asked why Canada doesn't have laws against organ harvesting. To my knowledge—and I might b

Foreign Affairs committee  What we put into this was that we wanted the doctors to report. If somebody's shot and they go to a doctor, then the doctor has to report that they had a patient come in who had a gunshot wound. We had put that in, but it was taken out by this committee, if I'm correct.

Foreign Affairs committee  As I said, we put the onus on the medical doctors. If you have a patient who's on a transplant list and all of a sudden the patient is not on the transplant list because he's taken his name off, something has happened. If you have someone who comes in who is having health issues

Foreign Affairs committee  Initially, we were seeing that transplant tourism was taking place in Asia, but recently with the migrant crisis, we're seeing that a lot of it is taking place in North Africa. We heard testimony about people who were trying to become refugees, trying to flee to Europe. They woul

Foreign Affairs committee  The conditions are terrible, and we've heard that a lot of these people whose organs are taken do not survive because the operations are done in backrooms and alleys and there is no aftercare. Some of them are threatened. They're told they are being followed and that if they even

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for that question. This is the bill that was sent to us, which this committee and the House approved. I've tabled it, I think, four times, and I tabled it the first day we were back. We didn't even take it back to committee, because we had already looked at it in the c

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, honourable members. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to appear before this committee as a witness and as a sponsor of Bill S-223, an act to amend the Criminal Code and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (trafficking in human organs).