✔︎ Bill S-224 (Trafficking in Persons)
Voted yea. Bill adopted.
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