Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The sustainability compact being carried out in Bangladesh that Mr. Patry mentioned is a good example of that kind of co-operative attitude. It's one in which we have gotten together with the Bangladeshi government; with other countries, such as the U.K., Australia, the U.S., the

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The caste is the poorest in the country. To go back to Mr. Drake's earlier statements, since one of the major drivers of human trafficking is poverty, that's where they come from.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I don't think so, proportionately, but I can confirm that.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No. The biggest indicator appears to be poverty. It's the economic status and not the social status. It's going to be mostly Hindu, because the country is mostly Hindu. Also, it's going to be mostly rural, because the country is mostly rural. That's the only pattern I've been ab

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm saying that I haven't found it, sir. I'm sure you'll have deeper research than I've been able to do in the last week that I've had to look into this matter.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's a sure point. I think we can say that there are certain areas we are focusing on, to follow your lead in your earlier point. We are able to move over on it. Women's and children's rights and sexual and other violence, domestic violence, is an area in which we are focusing a

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We don't have a position. We don't have an independent data source; therefore, having a position on the number would not make sense.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No, but it would be easy to get you that, and we will.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm sure this is a valid point. It's something to look into. I don't know the answer. To begin with, I'm not sure how that 77% would compare to, for example, dismissal rates in other countries. One of the problems you do have in this whole area, as I mentioned tangentially in my

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  You have to decide what you want to do. The workers who come in from Bangladesh, for example, are filling a need in India. They're there because there are jobs there to be done. They're being taken advantage of by the people who employ them and by the organizers of the mass movem

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think the general answer to your first question is, it's a matter of priorities and having too many things we could be doing to help and not being able to help all of them. There's no question that human trafficking is a really bad problem and that the sex trafficking end of it

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  If I can parrot the wise words that Mr. Drake just mumbled in my ear, it's not so much a pull factor as a push factor. It really is that you have people who are dirt poor. India is doing much better now than it was 20 years ago, even as an economy and a nation, but it still has a

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I wouldn't belittle the fact that there are constraints, physical and otherwise, that force people to do things. I don't have details. If you want, we can pursue that issue. I have never actually probed into that degree of detail on the subject.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I can give you only a partial analysis there. As far as I'm aware, and I was the High Commissioner in Bangladesh a few years ago, the human smuggling trade out of Bangladesh is largely workers, not sex workers, and they are largely going into India, because the economy is much m

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm not a development specialist, but my understanding is that it was ended at the request of the Indian government, not because India had anything against Canada or Canadian aid, but simply because it changed its policy on accepting bilateral aid programs from across the world.