Public Safety committee  If I may, I could perhaps answer that. In terms of human smuggling, which I believe is what you're referring to, we have several programs in place. We have a terrific partnership internationally in many different areas where we continually investigate human smuggling, to prevent

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I may, I could perhaps answer that. In terms of human smuggling, which I believe is what you're referring to, we have several programs in place. We have a terrific partnership internationally in many different areas where we continually investigate human smuggling, to prevent

Justice committee  Thank you. Good afternoon. Mr. Chair and honourable members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to talk to you about the RCMP's role and efforts in human trafficking. The RCMP plays a central role in the Government of Canada's overarching priority to provide for the s

Justice committee  There is a project called Project Protect, which involves FINTRAC and the disclosure of transactions of money. So, with the banking industry, yes, it would be with FINTRAC, and there has been some very good success in that project in recognizing transactions that could be linked

Justice committee  I would say that's more at the local level. Certainly local police of jurisdiction develop those types of relationships. I know from personal experience that would be one of the areas where I would develop a relationship. It's based on relationships, and yes, I have had good succ

Justice committee  It was, yes.

Justice committee  It would be very helpful. Currently, we look at statistics, through Statistics Canada, and with tracking of files, there's scoring attached to each file. So that's limited, depending on how the file is attributed through the scoring system, but reporting would be very, very helpf

Justice committee  Certainly the immigration piece is significant, but within the sex trade industry there's always a fear of prosecution for other offences. There's a fear of repercussion. There's intimidation. There's a fear of personal assault. A sex trade worker could be abused physically, and

Justice committee  It's certainly significant. I do not have those statistics, and I wouldn't be able to speak to what happens within the court process.

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm sorry, but which number did you refer to?

Justice committee  It was human trafficking-specific or -related convictions, so any number of Criminal Code sections would apply.

Justice committee  That's correct, out of—sorry—455.

Justice committee  Not all of those cases have gone through the court system yet, so the rest are still in the court system. If we go through the numbers, you would see that some are no longer moving forward, but the rest are in the court system still.

Justice committee  This was from 2005 to November 2017. As I mentioned before, there's a caveat on those statistics, in that—

Justice committee  Yes and no, I guess. In terms of organized crime, there's certainly a significant involvement in human trafficking. Within Canada, most of our international persons trafficked are with regard to forced labour. The rest are for sexual trade across Canada. With regard to organized