Justice committee  We can't actually push the prostitution industry underground. We can push it out of the way so we can't see it; that's more so the case. The prostitution reform bill's purpose was not intended to equate with the promotion of prostitution as an acceptable career option, and it's

Justice committee  Thank you. Some things that would be most beneficial would be the creation of other actual viable options like furthering their education, job skills, and job opportunities, as well as better housing options and opportunities, just learning a life other than normalized abuse, ha

Justice committee  Certainly not. As a matter of fact, their needs are what is important. That's what the purchase of sex is about. The johns are purchasing one hundred per cent of what they want and purchasing zero per cent of what the other participant wants.

Justice committee  I certainly know that victims aren't making money. A lot of the women I'm working with are exiting the sex trade as broke as they entered it, except for, of course, the addictions they are coming out with, and the other issues they are facing socially. In fact, they are not comi

Justice committee  Yes. I still have hope in Bill C-36. This is a hard-working bill, in fact. We can't throw out 95% of its benefits for the 5%, but what we can do right now, what you guys can do, is really look at it, take it and turn it inside out and flip it around to figure it out. That's why

Justice committee  Twenty million dollars is better than no dollars.

Justice committee  I hear you saying you'd like to put more money down, and I really appreciate that. That's exactly what we should be doing. You definitely should be putting more money towards it. But we need to change perceptions of society, huge public education campaigns.

Justice committee  We need equal police training. We need to have the laws of the land applied equally instead of having pockets of policing services that are already advocating a Nordic-model style of law in that they are not criminalizing the prostituted person or the trafficked person. They are,

Justice committee  Thank you, gratefully. I've just finished a one-year contract with an agency that specifically handles trafficked persons versus prostituted. So it's just a strict trafficked-persons issue. I can't walk into a group home in Canada where children—and these are 14-, 15-, 16-year-

Justice committee  Honourable members of Parliament, justice and human rights dignitaries, thank you for the invitation to speak to this extremely important bill that will greatly impact the future of many of my friends, their children, and countless other women and children who are trapped in the