Benjamin Perrin

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Benjamin Perrin
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Perrin in 2009
Born Vancouver, British Columbia
Residence Vancouver
Citizenship Canada
Nationality Canadian
Fields Criminal law
Human trafficking
Institutions Office of the Prime Minister
University of British Columbia (UBC) Faculty of Law
Known for Invisible Chains: Canada's Underground World of Human Trafficking
Website
www.law.ubc.ca/faculty/Perrin/web/index.html

Benjamin Perrin is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Faculty of Law.[1] He is from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[2] He moved to Ottawa, Ontario in the late 1990s in order to become a policy intern for the Reform Party of Canada.[3] He eventually became a lead policy adviser on subjects of relevance to the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, the Department of Justice, and Public Safety Canada.[4] He is involved with human trafficking research and activism, and wrote the 2010 book Invisible Chains: Canada's Underground World of Human Trafficking. This book deals extensively with North Preston's Finest[5] and includes an account of the disappearance of Jessie Foster. Perrin received a George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature nomination for having written this book.[2] Perrin helped Joy Smith develop the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking.[6] In the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report by the United States Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, he was the only Canadian named a TIP Hero.[7] Perrin spoke at the news conference at the Vancouver American consulate during which the TIP report was released, and he called for Stephen Harper "to announce that he will enact a national action plan to combat human trafficking to follow up on the measures that his government has already taken."[8] Perrin said that not having such a plan in place makes Canada look bad internationally and also prevents the issue of human trafficking from being adequately addressed.[9] Perrin argued that, if the plan was to be effective, it needed to establish a strategy for preventing human trafficking, protecting victims, and prosecuting traffickers.[8] He further said that the establishment of a national action plan on this issue "should be a priority for our federal government to end this atrocious crime that is flourishing in Canada."[6] In April 2013, Perrin left the Office of the Prime Minister and took up a position at UBC.[4] Later that year, he was implicated in the Canadian Senate expenses scandal.The opposition is now questioning whether or not the destruction of Perrin's emails is a part of the senate scandal, as a criminal destruction of evidence. The now "Invisible Chains" of emails is a possible part of the senate scandal, which may show in another way that Harper's former lead policy adviser for the Department of Justice and Public Safety is heavily involved in the senate scandal cover up. - A March 1st email in the RCMP's possession shows that Wright told Benjamin Perrin that he asked Irving Gerstein and Marjory Lebreton to work through senior people at the Deloitte firm to get Duffy excused from their audit investigation. The firm handling the Probe did not have all documents from Duffy's Lawyer, and Wright and others sought to end the Probe, carrying an appearance that it was to cause it to appear as if it was never a possible criminal or scandalous matter that the audit firm was investigating. Duffy’s lawyer had asked Harper's lawyer Perrin for an update on whether Duffy would be excused from the Probe. Since that evidence of a conspiracy to influence the audit investigation appears, it is highly unstable that Perrin pressed the delete button on his way out the door. [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Benjamin Perrin". University of British Columbia Faculty of Law. Retrieved November 3, 2013. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Local authors up for Ryga award". Kamloops This Week. August 4, 2011. Retrieved October 17, 2012. 
  3. ↑ Stephen Maher (October 25, 2013). "MPs demand answers over role of Tory lawyer Arthur Hamilton in Mike Duffy spending affair". Postmedia News. Retrieved November 3, 2013. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Andrea Janus (May 20, 2013). "PM's former legal advisor arranged deal for Wright to give Duffy $90K". CTV News. Retrieved November 3, 2013. 
  5. ↑ Julian Sher (October 15, 2010). "Sex trafficking: A national disgrace". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved November 18, 2012. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking Required". The Filipino Journal 7 (9). September 2013. Retrieved October 10, 2013. 
  7. ↑ "2009 TIP Report Heroes". United States Department of State. 2009. Retrieved November 3, 2013. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "U.S. tells Canada: Harsher sentences needed for sex traffickers". The News. June 17, 2009. Retrieved May 25, 2013. 
  9. ↑ Tamara Cherry (June 14, 2010). "Report, experts call for national strategy on human trafficking". The London Free Press. Retrieved May 25, 2013. 
  10. ↑ Michael Den Tandt (October 30, 2012). "Stephen Harper and Rob Ford are more similar than you think". Calgary Herald. Retrieved November 3, 2013. 
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