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View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
View Bob Bratina Profile
Lib. (ON)
Mr. Viersen, we're well over time, and in fairness, we'll.... Perhaps the question will get picked up again.
I'm going to ask Ms. Zann to go ahead for six minutes.
View Lenore Zann Profile
Lib. (NS)
Thank you. Wela'lioq. I come to you today from the unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq here in Nova Scotia.
First of all I want to say thank you so much to each of the witnesses for their very moving stories and personal experiences, their lived experiences. It takes a lot of courage to speak out. It takes a lot of courage to share these stories with others, and until more people come forward and are heard and have people actually listening and ready to act, you're right to say that this cycle will continue.
Regarding human trafficking, Canada, our government, is guided right now by the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its supplementary protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children. It's been organized around four pillars: the prevention of trafficking, the protection of victims, the prosecution of offenders, and working in partnership with others. There's a new one that's been added, which is called empowerment.
They've added this particular new one to enhance supports and services to victims. I have to say there's about $75 million that is going to be coming over six years, including $57.22 million over five years, and with $10.28 million ongoing to implement an enhanced suite of initiatives to help strengthen our response and fill critical gaps.
That said, how much of this issue do you feel has to do with organized crime, and how much do you feel has to do with just individuals who are exploiting women and children?
Who would like to go first? Karen Pictou, would you like to go first, and then Ms. Perrier and Ms. Baptie and Ms.... I can't see your name there.
View Bob Bratina Profile
Lib. (ON)
You only have about three and a half minutes.
Karen, please go ahead.
Karen Pictou
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Karen Pictou
2021-06-22 12:14
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 the door daily trying to drive us to the mall, trying to do different things to get us and to groom us. There was also a police task force called the pimp task force. They would come in and give us lectures and talk to us about the North Preston's Finest gang and this and that. At this time in the early nineties, out in the street child prostitution was huge. You could walk down Hollis Street on any day of the week at any time and see 12-year-old, 13-year-old, 14-year-old girls openly selling sex. All of these girls were being pimped by organized crime leaders. That continues to this day.
Here in Nova Scotia, we do see this continuously. Various groups, including the Hells Angels, traffic women here in the province online and on the street and bring them across the country to traffic them. It is 100% connected, and I would laugh at anyone who says otherwise, because I've seen it first-hand. I know the individuals involved, I understand the structure, and I understand that the majority of women who are being pimped are not even fully aware of who their actual pimp is. Because of the way it is structured, the pimp has another woman, a higher-ranking woman, who does the pimping for them, and you don't even necessarily meet the man at the top. That's how it goes, so 100%, Lenore, I guess it is connected.
View Lenore Zann Profile
Lib. (NS)
Thank you.
I don't think I have any more time, but Ms. Baptie....
View Bob Bratina Profile
Lib. (ON)
Trisha Baptie
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Trisha Baptie
2021-06-22 12:16
It's probably a bit different out here in B.C. We do have organized crime. I wouldn't say it's 100%. There are a lot more “Romeo” boyfriends and there's a lot more grooming of girls at 17 to get them in at 18. There's a bit of a different dynamic out here.
View Lenore Zann Profile
Lib. (NS)
Thank you.
Ms. Perrier, would you like to add something?
Bridget Perrier
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Bridget Perrier
2021-06-22 12:17
We do have organized crime here in Toronto and in northern Ontario. The Galloway Boys are big in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They have an infestation of Toronto gangs up in northern Ontario that are bringing girls out, but we also have Asians. The triads basically own all of the massage parlours and are given licences by the City of Toronto to keep open and keep servicing men. We also have North Preston's Finest. It's not so big. We don't have street prostitution like it used to be here in southern Ontario.
View Lenore Zann Profile
Lib. (NS)
Thank you so much. I think that's all the time I have.
View Bob Bratina Profile
Lib. (ON)
Well, maybe Janet could go ahead.
View Lenore Zann Profile
Lib. (NS)
Okay, thanks.
Ms. Gobert, are you there?
Is she on mute?
View Bob Bratina Profile
Lib. (ON)
No, she's not.
I can't hear you, Ms. Gobert. We'll get that solved in a moment. We need to move on to our next questioner for six minutes.
Ms. Bérubé, you have six minutes.
View Sylvie Bérubé Profile
BQ (QC)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am in the constituency of Abitibi—Baie‑James—Nunavik—Eeyou, on the unceded territory of the Cree and the Anishinaabe.
Everything you have said today is very harrowing. You have a lot of courage to be here before the committee today. You have gone through terrible things: exploitation and violence. Once again, I greatly admire the strength that you are showing by being here today.
Let's talk about the way trafficking young children starts.
How do you know that those children have been subjected to it? Is there a process? How did you manage to get out?
You can all answer my questions.
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