Justice committee  Bill C-36 is very valuable. I think we could strengthen it even more by putting the prevention piece in it. Also, something that comes up over and over again, and what we've found at the foundation, is that once you work with survivors, they need a way out. They need education

Justice committee  I appreciate that question, because Bill C-36 was the basis that I built my bills on. We have evidence every day of Bill C-36 being very effective. The shutdown of licensing for body rub parlours and escort services, for instance, was very important in the city of Winnipeg. The

Justice committee  I believe all partnerships across this country are extremely important, and the hotline, of course, is one of those partnerships and an extremely important component. You know, it takes a nation working together, everybody working together, to stop human trafficking and prevent t

Justice committee  You're totally correct. Education is our greatest weapon to combat human trafficking, and we need to work together to end that. We go into schools all across this country, from coast to coast to coast, with our prevention programs. In those prevention programs, we talk about how

Justice committee  We are, and not only in our area but all across Canada. We just finished a huge amount of training with the RCMP in the Windsor area. There's a lot of trafficking that happens off the Great Lakes. We work hand in hand with law enforcement. Policing is changing in this day and a

Justice committee  There should be greater emphasis, if there is any improvement on Bill C-36, on imposing the prevention piece and getting the prevention piece out there. There's little said about the prevention of human trafficking, so we've made that one of our major focuses at NHTEC. For Bill

Justice committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and distinguished members of this committee. I want to recognize and acknowledge that our offices are located on treaty territory, the original lands of the Anishinabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. I

Justice committee  Thank you, Tony, for that question. I'm used to calling you Minister Clement, so it will have to be Tony tonight.

Justice committee  This is a very serious issue. What Megan described is just so dead-on. There needs to be a consultation greater than what we're hearing right now in terms of going across the country and talking to different people. You know, there needs to be an in-depth consultation specificall

Justice committee  Oh, sorry about that. I don't have a stopwatch here. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Anyway, I think it's an issue that needs to be taken very seriously, and I don't think Bill C-75 reflects that the way it should. Thank you for this time that I've been able to give input to this committ

Justice committee  Thank you very much. It's an honour to be here.

Justice committee  Thank you, Chair. I thank the committee for examining this Bill C-75. I also want to say hello to my colleagues. I was a member of Parliament for close to 12 years. I know how hard you all work on this committee. I'm glad to have some input into it. I have to say that Bill C-75

Justice committee  I'm sorry; would you give me the first question? I was just listening to Mikhaela.

Justice committee  I think data collection has to be a big part of it. The strength of the national action plan was in providing programs for victims of human trafficking—education, things like that. It wasn't centred so much on data collection as it was on that aspect of it. I think we haven't arr

Justice committee  Here's what I've seen. Imagine a cute guy who a young girl is really interested in. This is in River Heights, Winnipeg, which is upper middle class, where the girls are going to a sports event at the community centre in the summer. The parents give them cellphones. They take care