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{
"time": "2013-05-01 15:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mrs. Joy Smith (Kildonan\u2014St. Paul, CPC)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3332870\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3332871\" data-originallang=\"en\">Welcome, Mr. Hooper and Ms. Legault-Roy. Thank you for coming today.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3332872\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Hooper, you and I know each other very well. Timea Nagy is an amazing victim who has risen above and is now helping police officers and is doing a lot of very good work. Mr. Hooper, as a lawyer for her organization, I have to thank you for all your volunteerism and for the work you have done as well. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3332873\" data-originallang=\"en\">Taking a look at this issue, you have described very well what we're looking at. It can be the girl next door. It can be people from abroad. I remember when Timea Nagy first came into Canada. She was trafficked from Hungary, as you know, and she was in a much different place from where she is right now, as one of the leaders in Canada, in my opinion, for helping victims of human trafficking.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3332874\" data-originallang=\"en\"> In regard to the case you referred to in terms of the forced labour, I know between Timea, Toni Skarica, and a few of us, we did a lot of work on that one.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3332875\" data-originallang=\"en\">Looking at this whole bill from Maria Mourani, as you know, Bill <a data-HoCid=\"4328299\" href=\"/bills/40-3/C-268/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code (minimum sentence for offences involving trafficking of persons under the age of eighteen years)\">C-268</a> and Bill <a data-HoCid=\"5137989\" href=\"/bills/41-1/C-310/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code (trafficking in persons)\">C-310</a> did certain things to help with this issue of human trafficking. I would like you to talk a little bit more about how Bill <a data-HoCid=\"5733493\" href=\"/bills/41-1/C-452/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code (exploitation and trafficking in persons)\">C-452</a> will help the victims of human trafficking, because that is the issue here, where the victims go to court and they won't talk. I know for the men in the forced labour case it was a horrendous experience, and they actually had organized crime from Hungary after them as well, trying to come into Canada. In Bill C-310 we authorized the assumption of extraterritorial jurisdiction so that Canadian prosecution could happen if Canadian citizens or permanent residents who commit human trafficking went abroad. Then we had an interpretive provision, which expanded the definition of human trafficking to enable the courts to bring justice to these perpetrators. Bill C-452 will help the victims as well.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3332876\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Hooper, I would like you to expand on your explanation of how this bill would apply to help these victims. Could you do that for us?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3332870\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3332871\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur Hooper et madame Legault-Roy, merci de compara\u00eetre devant notre comit\u00e9 aujourd'hui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3332872\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur Hooper, nous nous connaissons tr\u00e8s bien. Timea Nagy est une victime \u00e9tonnante qui a r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 s'en sortir et qui aide maintenant les policiers en accomplissant un travail extraordinaire. Monsieur Hooper, vous \u00eates l'avocat de son organisation, et je tiens \u00e0 vous remercier de tout le travail de b\u00e9n\u00e9volat que vous faites vous aussi. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3332873\" data-originallang=\"en\">Vous avez fort bien d\u00e9crit la situation pour laquelle nous essayons de trouver des solutions. Vous avez raison, \u00e7a peut \u00eatre la fille qui habite \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9. \u00c7a peut \u00eatre aussi des \u00e9trang\u00e8res. Je me souviens lorsque Timea Nagi est arriv\u00e9e pour la premi\u00e8re fois au Canada. Elle \u00e9tait victime de la traite, et les trafiquants lui ont fait quitter la Hongrie. Aujourd\u2019hui, elle a r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 devenir l'un des grands d\u00e9fenseurs des victimes de la traite. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3332874\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c0 propos de l'affaire dont vous avez parl\u00e9 au sujet du travail forc\u00e9, je sais qu'avec Timea et Toni Skarica, nous avons r\u00e9ussi, avec quelques autres, \u00e0 faire un travail formidable.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3332875\" data-originallang=\"en\">S'agissant du projet de loi de Maria Mourani, vous n'ignorez pas que les projets de loi <a data-HoCid=\"4328299\" href=\"/bills/40-3/C-268/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code (minimum sentence for offences involving trafficking of persons under the age of eighteen years)\">C-268</a> et <a data-HoCid=\"5137989\" href=\"/bills/41-1/C-310/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code (trafficking in persons)\">C-310</a> s'attaquaient \u00e0 certains aspects de la traite de personnes. J'aimerais toutefois que vous nous expliquiez davantage comment le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"5733493\" href=\"/bills/41-1/C-452/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code (exploitation and trafficking in persons)\">C-452</a> va aider les victimes de la traite, parce que le probl\u00e8me qui se pose bien souvent, c'est que les victimes se rendent au tribunal mais qu'elles refusent de parler. Je sais que, dans cette affaire de travail forc\u00e9 o\u00f9 les victimes \u00e9taient des hommes, \u00e7a a \u00e9t\u00e9 pour eux un v\u00e9ritable enfer, car il y avait des hommes du crime organis\u00e9 de Hongrie qui essayaient de venir au Canada pour s'en prendre \u00e0 eux. Dans le projet de loi C-310, nous reconnaissons le principe de l'extraterritorialit\u00e9, afin de pouvoir poursuivre les citoyens canadiens ou les r\u00e9sidents permanents qui se livrent \u00e0 la traite de personnes \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger. Ensuite, nous avons ajout\u00e9 une disposition d'interpr\u00e9tation, afin d'\u00e9largir la d\u00e9finition de la traite de personnes, pour que les tribunaux puissent poursuivre les auteurs de ce crime. Le projet de loi C-452 va lui aussi venir en aide aux victimes. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3332876\" data-originallang=\"en\">Et justement, monsieur Hooper, j'aimerais que vous nous expliquiez davantage comment il va venir en aide aux victimes. Je vous en prie.</p>"
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