Currently what happens with the situation of a forced marriage, especially in the cases of repatriation where clients are stuck abroad, or in a situation where a client contacts the clinic in a sponsorship situation and says that they are being sponsored to Canada but this is a forced marriage for them, the help is very band-aid-like in the sense that I will try to connect them to an NGO abroad or an NGO here in Canada on the basis of what I know and what I have taught myself over the last seven or eight years of my work, or what my agency knows.
We don't have any national database that actually has names of all the different agencies and stakeholders interested in this issue. We basically are looking at a one-stop shop that would have all different names of consular services, officers, and agencies that have an interest in these clients and would be able to assist the clients.
We made this recommendation to the department of foreign affairs and to Citizenship Canada at the bureaucratic level as well.