Justice committee  I'd like to add to that if I could.

Justice committee  When I look back in the '80s and '90s, I remember it was so cool to smoke and it was promoted. We've managed to cure this problem, and it's really turned around completely now because of the advertising that was done against it. Also, as you were saying before about the guys who

Justice committee  Well, I remember going to a players ball, where all the traffickers meet with their girls, and there were hundreds of people there.

Justice committee  Seventy-five, 100.

Justice committee  The girls who get to go are the “high” call girls. You might get one girl—they want to bring their trophy with them—but then there could be three other girls who are on the streets and in so-called massage parlours.

Justice committee  Absolutely.

Justice committee  For men, from what it used to be to what it is now, it's probably tripled. I do drug counselling now with boys, and almost all of them were raped at a young age. They're very vulnerable to that. I don't know anything about stats. I'm a front-line guy on the streets. For me, all

Justice committee  It's so hard to say right now. I've been out of this for so many years. Right now I just deal with individuals, with groups, and I do a lot of public speaking. The feedback I get is that we're probably heading to close to half and half, but it's a lot harder to discover the guys.

Justice committee  They never...these guys are ashamed of work. To them, having a job is the most shameful thing. There are nightclubs packed with these players who are there doing that, and there's so little done about it.

Justice committee  The whole hotel was basically consecrated for human trafficking and crack.

Justice committee  When I was in Calgary, and this was over 20 years ago, there were just as many men being trafficked as girls. In Montreal, it's the same thing. When you get the race cars out there, the Indy races, whenever there are towns with great events.... Regina was a convention town, so th

Justice committee  They're all in it together.

Justice committee  Years ago it was dedicated to organized crime. I know because my father-in-law was a hit man for the mafia. In that day it was more in organized crime. Today I find it's just any guy who decides to make money. He hears from someone else that it's so easy to traffic, so you'll get

Justice committee  The strange thing is that I was in my hotel room when that happened. He did this right outside my hotel room. The hotel was surrounded by about 20 cop cars. They called me from the lobby and said, “This is the Calgary Police. Come out of your room, hands behind your head.” When I

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the invite. I really appreciate it. It's not easy for me to be here today. It's humiliating, but it's important because I was there and I know how these predators think. The only reason I'm alive today and able to tell my story is that one day I we