Status of Women committee  Statistics Canada does have data on HST that's collected from legal businesses, but even if we knew the entities and their nefarious criminal activities, we would have no way of being able to determine that. When we collect data for HST that's paid or not, it gets aggregated into

Status of Women committee  It's FINTRAC.

Status of Women committee  I suspect FINTRAC is collecting it, because they are focusing their investigative efforts on people who are doing criminal activity. They are following financial transactions and are able to calculate it. I believe that's where you're getting those data points from.

Status of Women committee  I couldn't comment. I know that FINTRAC has done some great work in tracking human trafficking people and how they spend their money. They have followed their transactions and have come up with some great studies, but I couldn't get into the details.

Status of Women committee  Currently within our systems we do have a flag that will indicate whether a computer was used in the perpetration of this violent offence. We haven't yet looked at it in terms of human trafficking. My concern would be that maybe the luring part would start, but once the individu

Status of Women committee  I can send you the information about the shelters.

Status of Women committee  That's a critical question. What we can release at the moment are age and sex. We are unable to release ethnicity, which is a huge gap. However, currently Statistics Canada, working in association with the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, will start collecting ethnicity

Status of Women committee  Through our Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, we extract information from more than 600 police services across Canada. We get the data in a consistent manner. It's high quality. The challenge we currently have is that anecdotally we know that some police services are taking a trau

Status of Women committee  Again we have to understand that police officers are trying to gain the trust of victims and that their priority is to safeguard that victim. They have to gain that trust, so if the victim is reluctant to share information about the perpetrator and is feeling threatened, then the

Status of Women committee  That's a great question. The data that we use comes from police-reported information management systems. If I look at the trend data from 2011 to 2017, there were year-over-year increases in the number of police-reported incidents. In 2018-9, there were really high numbers, and

Status of Women committee  I would like to just add that the big concern is victims who never report to the police. Their first step is seeing a victim services agency. Those people are the first stop, the front line. From a victim-centred approach and a trauma-enhanced approach, they want to meet the need

Status of Women committee  That's a great question. I don't have those numbers right in front of me. However, what we know from the data is that a lot of the police-reported human trafficking incidents never even make it to court to start with. They are very complex and difficult to prosecute. Of those tha

Status of Women committee  It is, very much so.

Status of Women committee  Yes, I definitely will. Thank you.

Status of Women committee  That's a great question. When we've done regression analysis, one of the leading indicators to victimization as an adult was experiencing child maltreatment, and that's when we were controlling for economic factors, ethnicity, age and income. That was not just intimate partner vi