✔︎ Bill S-224 (Trafficking in Persons)

Bill

Bill S-224, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (trafficking in persons)

Vote

Yea.

Rationale

The current definition of exploitation focuses on the impact of the trafficker’s conduct on a reasonable person in the victim’s circumstances. As this definition has been interpreted broadly, including by appellate courts, and has secured convictions, we cannot support Bill S-224’s proposal to remove it from the Criminal Code. We propose amending Bill S-224 to add its proposed definition of exploitation as an additional definition that could be used in appropriate cases, providing prosecutors with an additional tool to ensure traffickers are held to account.

Passed.

Bill Status

At report stage in the House of Commons