Status of Women committee  Yes. Again to that point, having representation from the people who are impacted is so important. You know, one very unique area that we're not talking about today is rural communities. Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit folks are in lots of rural communities. The issues are

Status of Women committee  Yes. I think what can be difficult is to ask survivors to come forward to police when we know that a lot of times police are purchasing. That's not exclusive to police. It's not only police who purchase, but it is connected, and it's hard to come forward.

Status of Women committee  I think there is significant accountability for social media platforms. That needs to be addressed and possibly legislated. The youth know this, yet youth need to be made aware. They need to lead these initiatives as well, in terms of online awareness and the gaps they see. I h

Status of Women committee  I'm speaking to meaningful engagement with survivors. I think survivor-led initiatives are important. We're certainly hearing more about them. I think there need to be not just trauma-informed spaces but survivor-informed spaces. There are multiple nuances that need to be consid

Status of Women committee  No. It will come later, after I'm all done here.

Status of Women committee  Yes. If you look at the national strategy, a significant gap was in the leveraging of lived experience and the funding of peer-type projects and peer agencies. You spoke about family, and that was another piece that was significantly missed in the national strategy: family reu

Status of Women committee  I definitely don't feel equipped to answer that question, other than to say to have conversations at the national level. I heard there was a national table to end human trafficking meeting. The first I heard of this was watching one of these videos. I wonder about expanding tho

Status of Women committee  I think it's in creating those national guidelines. I saw that there was a call for them some time ago. I don't believe anybody was awarded that call for national guidelines to set a standard for human trafficking identification awareness for frontline workers and beyond in Canad

Status of Women committee  It's Butterfly Toronto for migrant sex workers.

Status of Women committee  Yes. I want to speak as well to the suggestion that in the laws, women shouldn't be charged or are not charged: Women are charged every day for crimes related to trafficking. That's a great example of how that legislation is used to disproportionately impact, criminalize or dep

Status of Women committee  Yes, I think that would be a cornerstone in prevention.

Status of Women committee  I think this has been a long-standing conversation, as it should be. My point there is that you can support the work to end human trafficking while also protecting the rights of those who are engaged in the sex industry by choice. That is what I was getting to with that point.

Status of Women committee  GBA+ is a government initiative about looking at policies, procedures and processes through an intersectional lens. When it came to laws in 2016 and 2014, I don't think that lens was adopted when they were rewritten, and I think we can do better. I think the lens of sex workers

Status of Women committee  Thank you so much. I first want to acknowledge that we're meeting on unceded Algonquin Anishinabe territory. It is especially important for me not only to ground myself in acknowledging the land I'm occupying as a settler when doing anti-trafficking work, but also to stand in so