Status of Women committee  I mentioned the Swedish model where you decriminalize the victims, because in a sense they're still criminalized under Canadian law, but you don't decriminalize the pimps and the johns. In fact, you might put even more penalties on the johns than there are now. I think they're

Status of Women committee  Well, first of all, I mentioned that the definition used here is an adaptation of the Palermo Protocol, which is not exactly what we have here. But there are certain things that are questionable. Sometimes live-in caregivers who are brought over and exploited, and sometimes rap

Status of Women committee  In B.C. they're put into foster homes. They sometimes have to evade lawyers who are trying to find them, lawyers who are working for the traffickers. They have to use the privacy for their own protection. In Manitoba, Marymound has a special sexual treatment unit for internally

Status of Women committee  I know in Quebec there's a problem for children because so far they have been taken under what used to be SARIMM but now is Preda. There's a legal problem there because Preda was never taking legal guardianship of the children, so there was no legal guardianship of children invol

Status of Women committee  It's been haphazard.

Status of Women committee  All three. All of the above.

Status of Women committee  All ages.

Status of Women committee  There's very little. In B.C., the ministry takes charge, the Ministry of Social—

Status of Women committee  In B.C. it's under 19. It's one of the only provinces where it's up to the age of 19. Robin Pike, by the way, is also the supervisor of the specialized migrant services team for separated children in B.C. This is a team that started with the boat and marine arrivals in 1999. S

Status of Women committee  I mentioned a few of the gaps in my presentation, like the ones about the TRPs only for visas, which would not give services, or the problems of people who want to return home. In reality, they're still going to need services. If they don't have a TRP because they're going home,

Status of Women committee  Right.

Status of Women committee  I think it has to be a combination. You cannot do just one. I mean, we don't have access to all the people. I'm on an NGO-CIC immigration working group for separated children. I know that what's happening there is that they're just looking at refugees. They're not even consideri

Status of Women committee  First of all, it's the money. Most of us are strapped as it is, especially some of us in the settlement area in certain provinces. I know in B.C. they're looking at having some NGO and government personnel go out with the police on a raid to take charge of the victims so they're

Status of Women committee  It's briefly outlined in the B.C. plan. There is housing--short-term, long-term, and emergency. There is medical, both psychological and physical. The interim federal health will cover for four months, but some provinces have a wait time also, so if they're going to stay any long

Status of Women committee  I can say I have heard of cases in the Vancouver area, especially because of the age of 14, in which they use the method of a boyfriend developing a relationship, which then leads to crossing the border into the States, especially into the southern United States. We've had severa