Justice committee  You have to be a fool as a lawyer to speculate on this, so allow me to be a fool. Probably if you've been acquitted in another country as a Canadian or permanent resident charged with trafficking in that country and you return to Canada, first of all, it's unlikely that prosecut

Justice committee  Can I address it?

Justice committee  It's not a problem. We have many such extraterritorial offences. Of course, Rosalind mentioned the child sex laws, which are extraterritorial, but there's also torture, hijacking, certain terroristic offences, attacks on internationally protected persons, and offences involving

Justice committee  I think, this is academic. In reality,we do not have this problem.

Justice committee  This part of the bill is really well drafted. My hat is off to you; the wording is really good. It lists examples that could be regarded by a court as exploitation, but it also has these magic words: “among other factors”. So it's not an exhaustive list. If those words weren't th

Justice committee  What can I say? I think it's great. I really don't have a problem as far as that section goes.

Justice committee  Let's not mix apples and oranges. Bill C-310, as far as it goes, does a great job. My criticism is that this House has to go farther. I'm no expert in procedure to say whether that occurs—

Justice committee  Correct. The treatment of victims....

Justice committee  On that part I give it a big thumbs up.

Justice committee  You're asking a professor for a grade?

Justice committee  If that person was a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident at the time of the wrongful act, then yes.

Justice committee  But not otherwise. You cannot reach backwards; you cannot have an element of retroactivity in the law, such as I think, if I understand you correctly, you're hypothesizing there.

Justice committee  That's why I said this bill takes a step in the direction of universal jurisdiction. It's not universal jurisdiction in its purist form.

Justice committee  Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, members of the committee. I'm Professor Amir Attaran, professor of law and medicine at the University of Ottawa. Thank you for asking my opinion on Bill C-310. You know the subject of today's hearing, of course. It's human trafficking. The i