Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Certainly I suppose you could call 911. I don't know that really that is the way it ever happens, though. I'm not aware of that. I know that we do have a strong response within the police system in Nova Scotia, and we are very well connected with Corporal David Lane, who heads

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I did speak a little bit about the Jane Paul centre and the resiliency centre. Essentially, the prevention work would be in family healing and empowerment, as we talked about. It wouldn't just be open for victims or for survivors; it would be open to all of our community members

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  First off, in Nova Scotia one simple way to prevent future human trafficking is to stop the Goldboro LNG mining plant that is scheduled to happen. The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia will own a work camp with 5,500 temporary workers that will be located just outside the borders of Paqtnke

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Certainly. Shortly after I began this role just a little over three years ago, we received $100,000 per year for a three-year period through our national umbrella organization, NWAC, as federal core funding. However, leading up to the end of that agreement, there still is no dec

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For me, personally, how did I get out of human trafficking? I was arrested. I had been beaten and stabbed in the stomach. My face was smashed in and my teeth knocked out, and one of my neighbours called the police. The police came, brought me to the hospital and then proceeded to

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It is 100% completely tied to organized crime. I can interconnect this. The last thing I was going to talk about actually was that when I was 13 years old, I had disclosed sexual abuse and became a troubled teen. I was put in a group home. During my time there, we had pimps at

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay, sorry. I'll wrap up by talking about our next most important initiative, and then I'll leave it for questions after that. In all of this work with human trafficking, domestic violence, MMIWG and all of these things we're working on, we are thinking about what we need to b

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, everybody, for inviting me to speak at this very important meeting today. I'm going to apologize up front because I was invited to this meeting late last week and I haven't had due time to prepare as thoroughly as I would normally like to. I've written some speaking no