An Act to amend the Criminal Code (minimum sentence for offences involving trafficking of persons under the age of eighteen years) was a private member's bill that was enacted on June 29, 2010 by the 40th Canadian Parliament. Until that time, no other private member's bill had passed since the 2008 Canadian federal election. The bill that led to the act, Bill C-268, was sponsored by Joy Smith, Member of Parliament for Kildonan—St. Paul. The act established a mandatory sentencing of five years' imprisonment for those charged with the trafficking of children within Canada. Tara Teng, who was Miss B.C. World at the time, spoke positively about the passing of the bill, but believed that more needed to be done politically on this matter, so she began to meet with MPs in the Metro Vancouver area