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CPC (AB)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank our witnesses for being here today.
I want to acknowledge the pain and harm that you've experienced from traffickers and men who buy sex. I want to thank you for choosing to appear at this committee in spite of all your pain. I hope that we can bring our committee to some understanding of the realities that Canadians across this country face and help to prevent others from being trafficked, so thank you very much.
Previous witnesses talked a little bit about the role of group homes and child welfare systems as places where youth are lured from. I was wondering if I could get each of you to comment about that a little bit.
We'll start with Trisha.
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
Thanks, Trisha.
Bridget, would you comment?
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CPC (AB)
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
Thank you, witnesses, for being here today. I really appreciate your testimony.
Ms. Smiley, perhaps we could just dig into the situation in New Zealand a little bit more. That's really interesting. The situation in New Zealand is similar to Canada's in terms of having a similar kind of basis in law. I'm just wondering how changes in law in New Zealand have affected their first nations communities.
I know that Maori indigenous people account for a percentage of New Zealand's population that is about the same as the percentage within Canada's population of first nations, Inuit and Métis. The correlation is fairly similar, other than the fact that New Zealand is an island nation and not right next to the United States.
I'm just wondering if you can outline a little bit how laws have changed there and what the effect on the indigenous population has been.
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
Switching to Ms. McGuire-Cyrette, the national hotline for human trafficking victims has been up and running now for a couple of years.
Do you have any experience with it, and has it been achieving its stated goals?
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks for the admonition there. I appreciate that.
I'll go back to Ms. Smiley.
I appreciate your testimony. One of the things you talked about is a defence of our current PCEPA bill. Could you expand on that a little more?
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
I know that the average trafficking victim raises or is worth about $320,000 a year. There's a lot of money in the sex trafficking world. How do we get that money out of the system? How do we end that demand? That's the big question.
Do you have any comments around that?
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
The PCEPA bill was based on—
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
I'll give my time over to Mr. Vidal.
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
Yes, I just want to ensure we are still having the meeting next week on Tuesday. There was some discussion about not having it. I hope that's not the case. I hope we are still having the meeting on Tuesday.
The other question is for the clerk. Are we able to table the report? I know there are two days—one in July and one in August—where things can happen. Are we able to table the report on one of those days?
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
I move that we do adjourn, Mr. Chair.
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CPC (AB)
Mr. Chair, I was hoping to ask the other witnesses who aren't here some questions, so I'll turn this time over to Gary Vidal.
The Chair: Gary.
View Arnold Viersen Profile
CPC (AB)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank our witnesses for being here today. We very much appreciate your testimony.
Ms. Blaney, a few years ago you testified at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls on the expert and knowledge keeper panel. You gave recommendations.
One of the things you talked about was to go upstream and address why indigenous women and girls are being trafficked in the first place. Do you have any recommendations for preventing indigenous women and girls from being trafficked in the first place? What needs to change?
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CPC (AB)
Some of my research shows that the average sex trafficking victim in Canada is worth about $325,000 a year. There is huge money in it. That's part of the reason it happens as frequently as it does.
Where does that money come from? That money is a huge incentive to drive people into it and to drive traffickers to pursue trafficking of victims. How do we get rid of the money? Where does the money come from and then how do we push the money out of the system?
I'll go with Ms. Blaney and Ms. Brown.
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