We served 1,300 victims of human trafficking of women and girls last year. As you may know from the media, one source of our funding through the federal government was not renewed. Fortunately, because of the support we have in the city of London, the city raised the money, $12,000 a month for almost a full year, so we could continue our program, because we have a real problem—and not only in London but in every single city off the 401.
Then we were advised that we could apply for a new grant through WAGE, which we did. It's two years of funding. That's it. This is a serious issue impacting all aspects of society. We don't want two years of funding. We need core funding. We can't appropriately manage and plan for our programming to trafficked women and girls without a commitment from all levels of government that the funding will continue.
We're fortunate that the Government of Ontario has provided us with core funding, as has the City of London. However, we are missing funding from the federal government.