Status of Women committee  The results have been positive and that fact is attributed to the increase in reports over the last couple of years. Industry is on board and we are getting a lot more reports. That's why I say the trend is upward and it's only going to continue to go upward with more industry re

Status of Women committee  A lot of the online child exploitation is global; it's not only in Canada. A lot of times, the perpetrator could live in another country and the victim could be in Canada, or vice versa, so we do have that collaboration goal within the law enforcement agency jurisdictions. If we

Status of Women committee  There's a combination. They could be international. But quite often there's a broad reach, so you might have a situation in which it's not just in Canada; it's throughout the world. Every now and then we'll run major projects. You have a cross-section of both victims and perpetra

Status of Women committee  I wish there were, but the reality is that with the “dark web”, anonymization techniques, encryption, and ongoing technology changes, it's really difficult. We do conduct those investigations, but they are more complex and they take much more time. More resources would certainly

Status of Women committee  It will be extremely difficult. We've been dealing with this issue for years and the main issue is the reporting by the other police departments. Once we disseminate the material, it's out of our control what we get back. Once again, your best way forward with that is through Sta

Status of Women committee  In different countries they are able to access the information more quickly than we in Canada can, but we're bound by current legislation. In some areas or geographic locations, some police agencies are able to get information from ISPs more quickly than in other areas, but that

Status of Women committee  Right now, we have a strong partnership with all law enforcement agencies. The good thing about the centre is that we've been in existence since 2004. We've built those partnerships over the years. There's ready access. There's good collaboration on all ends.

Status of Women committee  It's hard to get those numbers. At the national centre we don't get all the feedback from all of our law enforcement partners, including the RCMP, municipal police agencies, and provincial police agencies. The return rate on a lot of our statistics is generally around 25% or 30%.

Status of Women committee  I'll just say right now that we can't really have a hand in legislation. We work as well as we can with our partners. We're making great efforts in some areas, but we realize that it is becoming more difficult to track some of these perpetrators. However, we do manage to get some

Status of Women committee  It's not our role to make any legislation. Whatever legislation comes before us, we'll deal with appropriately.

Status of Women committee  I'm totally open to any ideas that can help us out. Anybody in law enforcement would be willing to assist, but right now, we work with the legislation we have. If I had an answer for you right now, I would give it to you. We work within the needs of the legislation and the polici

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Kim. We see the increase not just strictly around mandatory reporting. In the last year and a half, we've been getting a lot of reports from private industry of online child sexual abuse material being sent to us. That's where a lot of this comes from. It's not all a

Status of Women committee  All our reports are international. We receive a good majority of our reports from NCMEC in the States, as well as Cybertip in Canada. We receive very few from the public. Most of the public ones go to Cybertip, but out of all the ones we receive from our partners, namely Cybertip

Status of Women committee  I wish there were. At this point, though, we continue the efforts with our partners. There's good collaboration with all our law enforcement partners. There's always an ongoing challenge with new technology. We can't keep up with it, but we're trying our best with what we have.