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Janet Gobert
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Janet Gobert
2021-06-22 12:36
Sure.
When we talk about empowerment.... I'm not sure which witness said that the empowerment of girls means they will not be able to be trafficked. That is something that has been discussed over and over again within our board. What we were looking at in that regard is going into the schools. I know it has been done over and over, but switching it to have a cultural aspect to it is what we're going to be attempting to do.
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Lib. (ON)
Who'd like to go next?
Go ahead, Karen.
Karen Pictou
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Karen Pictou
2021-06-22 12:36
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 Paqtnkek First Nation. I guarantee you that there is no training we can do and that there are no policies that we can put in place to keep our women, girls and two-spirit people safe. If and when indigenous women, girls or two-spirit people are harmed from this project, it'll end up being the Mi'kmaq who are liable, because they own the work camp.
This needs to end. We do not need this. The Mi'kmaq will not benefit enough to risk our lives and to gamble the well-being of our communities in order to house this project. I guarantee you that stopping the Goldboro plant will prevent human trafficking in Nova Scotia.
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Lib. (ON)
Go ahead, Ms. Perrier.
Bridget Perrier
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Bridget Perrier
2021-06-22 12:38
We're going to go back to empowerment. I think we need to teach our boys not to rape. I think it just goes.... It's not about our little girls. Why is it always our females who have to bear the brunt of men's bad behaviours? I think we need to have “buyer bewares” throughout Canada to warn that if you're in this city, this territory, to buy sex, you're going to be publicly shamed.
If you put accountability on the men who are causing the problem, then it could mean putting a revenue-type thing on it, making more sex buyer busts, making them pay for us. I really think that when you tell them, “Hey, if you're caught buying sex in this neighbourhood, your car's going to be impounded, your vehicle's going to be tagged and your wife's going to get a letter”—or your spouse, your work or whatever....
I just think that we need to put the onus back on the buyers. That's my whole thing. It's the buyers. If we didn't have the demand, we wouldn't have this problem.
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Lib. (ON)
Trisha, would you like to come into this?
Trisha Baptie
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Trisha Baptie
2021-06-22 12:39
I went to Sweden for three days. I was invited by the government to study the prostitution law they had just passed. I think we need to do two things that they did.
One was public education. All across transit, in the airports and everywhere, you'd see welcome signs saying that buying sex is a crime. They believe that, and they ingrained it into the fibre of their society. I went to a high school there because I wanted to talk to kids who had grown up under the new prostitution laws. I had 17-year-old girls tell me that they would not date boys who had looked at porn because they knew how much they were worth. This law changed the way they saw each other and the way they interacted.
If we want to change a country, we change the laws. We want laws that say this is ridiculous and you can go to jail for treating our women this way.
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Lib. (ON)
Wow. Thank you for that testimony.
Jaime Battiste, go ahead, please.
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Lib. (NS)
Yes, thank you. My question is going to be for Karen Pictou.
Karen, I want you to talk a little bit about the Jane Paul centre and the resiliency centre that you have planned. How are these important examples of how we can use part of the money with the missing and murdered indigenous women's group to prevent violence against women, and racism as well?
Karen Pictou
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Karen Pictou
2021-06-22 12:41
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 to take part in healing activities. It's to do different things that are culturally based, to provide opportunity, provide training, provide support, provide community, and provide acceptance and eliminate stigma. It's all of those things. Every day, the Jane Paul centre works to prevent death and to prevent violence.
I believe the work we're doing.... We have about 10 volunteers—although not so many right now, because of COVID—who come and work out of the Jane Paul centre who are former clients. That shows that something we are doing is working, and it needs to be recognized.
I believe that future generation is one way we're going to prevent exploitation. As I said, we need to to build up our own identities as Mi'kmaq women and understand our key role within family, within community and within our society. That needs to get returned to us.
Another way will be around having space and place. In Nova Scotia, for example, Highway 102 is the human trafficking corridor to the rest of the country. The majority of women who are coming out of human trafficking across Canada started in Nova Scotia.
Believe you me, we may not talk about it a lot. As you know, Jaime, a lot of times our women are stigmatized when they come forward and talk about these types of things that have happened to them. A lot of times they're silent. However, this building—our resiliency centre—will be a beacon of hope. You will see our building from the 102. It will be a beacon of hope so that if a woman can just get to our door, they'll be okay. I guarantee that they will be okay.
Another thing that we're doing is working in partnership. We don't want to duplicate services from any other organization. We work very closely with the YWCA and the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre. One of the things I'm doing in Sydney today is going to view some real estate. The Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre and the Nova Scotia Native Women's Association are partnering to open a home for women exiting human trafficking, as well as for women who are in need of a safe space. It will be located in Sydney. It will be owned and operated by indigenous women. Although that is a response to human trafficking, I know that it will also work as prevention, because our communities will be aware. There will be education. These women will survive and they'll be able to grow healthy families.
I'm sorry for the long-winded response. I'm trying to get in a lot in a short period of time.
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Lib. (NS)
No, it was a good response.
Something I've always been curious about is this: If someone is seeking to leave trafficking and someone is in crisis or they feel they are vulnerable, what are the supports available for that person? Can they just call 911? Do they have culturally sensitive, relevant supports available so that they can just dial a number or send a text or log on to a website? Can you tell me what someone would be able to do and whether that is working?
Karen Pictou
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Karen Pictou
2021-06-22 12:45
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 that group. They're certainly doing a lot to try to address this issue, but it's not working. It's not enough, and Constable David Lane would be the first to tell you that his back really is against the wall a lot of times. As soon as they start getting a track on someone, they move into a new province, and then there is this whole jurisdictional issue of trying to get the other province up to speed and so on.
To make a long story short, any woman who contacts the Nova Scotia Native Women's Association at any time of day, even if it's by pressing our Ring doorbell an the Jane Paul centre, can access someone at any time of day. Our new resiliency centre, once it is built, will have the same capability with a Ring doorbell. We'll bring them through to a safe space, even behind bulletproof glass, and hold them there until we can get them to safety. As the other lady said, if need be, we would bring them to our own homes. We have done that and we will continue to do that, but we shouldn't have to.
In Nova Scotia the only shelter available for women exiting human trafficking is church-based. I don't need to explain to you how problematic that is for indigenous women and girls here in Nova Scotia. There need to be alternatives, and that's why Pam Glode and I are ensuring that.... There's no money. We have no funding to do this. We're just doing it based on what we can gather up from donations to buy this building and to get it started. We believe that when we build it, the opportunity will come.
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you.
Madame Bérubé, are you able to pose your question?
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BQ (QC)
Yes, Mr. Chair. My apologies, I had to step away.
Ms. Gobert, you said you want to see certain things happen. What are they?
Janet Gobert
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Janet Gobert
2021-06-22 12:47
I'm sorry, but could you repeat the question, please?
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