Justice committee  I can give you a case in point. We worked with somebody who essentially wanted to remain anonymous, which is exactly the circumstance you provided. At that particular time, that individual actually was amorous of the sex trade worker and ultimately was jealous of any other client

Justice committee  We work hand in hand with the Gatineau police service. As I alluded to earlier, they were a part of our initiative prior to the Grey Cup. There are trends where we see a lot of girls from the Quebec side, mainly the Montreal area, coming over to work in Ontario, simply because th

Justice committee  We have four investigators, two female and two male, and everybody is fluently bilingual. We sit on a lot of steering committees and human trafficking committees with a lot of other social groups, and we share a lot of information. A lot of referrals come our way based on the com

Justice committee  We frequently have victims we manage, who end up testifying in a preliminary hearing, and they're cross-examined by defence lawyers. They are treated, and demeaned, and feel belittled to the point where they are not in a position where they want to come back for the said trial. W

Justice committee  Would it be possible for you to rephrase that question? I'm not sure I understand what “the role of the john”, or what you're trying to—

Justice committee  Prior to the Bedford decision, we at the police service used to have prostitution sweeps. We would go out and basically, at that particular time, round up all of the sex trade workers, because they were on the streets providing sexual services. Then we would reintroduce our under

Justice committee  In terms of commenting on a trial in another jurisdiction that I'm not familiar with, I'm not quite sure I can really answer what my beliefs are with regard to that specific preliminary hearing.

Justice committee  Sure. I believe the Jordan decision is acting very favourably with regard to expediting trials. Therefore, I think we're taking great steps with regard to speeding up the processes. I do believe that as a result of the type of investigations we do, a lot of our victims are very t

Justice committee  That's a heavy question. I think it needs to be looked at on a case-by-case basis, based on the charges that maybe that person or that victim has and what the previous convictions relate to. I would agree that there are certain circumstances where we have had victims who have be

Justice committee  Correct. I think if there were a way to ascertain or determine that those charges were on the peripheral of trafficking as a major concern, then we could deal with those charges at that particular point.

Justice committee  With respect to the education with the hospitals, we've done several presentations to CHEO as well as to the Civic Hospital. We anticipate more of these education and awareness presentations in the future. Your questions were threefold....

Justice committee  We currently sit with a lot of the hotel associations and we conduct presentations with them. We have an initiative that we're trying to spearhead at this particular point with them. We were planning on having flyers or posters put up in hotels, with their consent, whether it's i

Justice committee  We frequently receive “crime stopper” tips that we act on, and those, as you know, are anonymous. A lot of the time they corroborate information that we either know or suspect. There is an initiative that I'm aware of in Houston, where they've provided a lot of education to the

Justice committee  —we could act on it. Absolutely. We could deal with the information as source information or through crime stoppers.

Justice committee  Yes, they were women. The particular woman I was making reference to, who moved out of province, we had dealt with on three separate occasions in the fall.