Status of Women committee  No, absolutely not. In 2014, the Concertation des luttes contre l'exploitation sexuelle provided an overview of the sex trade in Montreal and the surrounding areas. We identified 270 massage parlours in Montreal and its suburbs alone. We are talking about thousands of women who

Status of Women committee  Yes, obviously.

Status of Women committee  It's not a simple matter. I think that we've gotten too accustomed to looking at human trafficking from a purely legal perspective. When we see what prostitution does to the lives of women, we see that it doesn't really matter whether we refer to it as trafficking or not. The Pa

Status of Women committee  No, not necessarily, especially not across the border. In Canada, for example, most cases involve domestic trafficking, meaning it occurs between cities in the same country. Right now, particularly because of the recent case before the Ontario Court of Appeal and the lobby that i

Status of Women committee  It's a double yes.

Status of Women committee  To my knowledge, there is nothing in that action plan to address the demand. Once again, if we are serious about cracking down on trafficking, then we have to address the root causes. Addressing the demand should therefore be part of the national action plan. I don't know for su

Status of Women committee  In my opinion, this problem is related to the root causes of the problem and to who can do what. In that regard, I think we need to follow Quebec's lead. When I talk about a support program for exiting prostitution, I think about the committee that examined the sexual exploitati

Status of Women committee  It is right back.

Status of Women committee  It's been sold to someone else.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. In 2016, France created a law similar to the one that we passed in 2014 to criminalize the purchase of sexual acts. In 2016, the government of France also embraced the concept of offering a program to provide direct support to women who want to exit p

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Committee members, I would like to start by acknowledging that we are on unceded territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation, and that indigenous and Inuit women and girls have borne, and continue to bear, the brunt of trafficking for sexual exploitatio