Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The way our reporting works, we don't necessarily have, or I don't have, the statistics on the number of victims. I can tell you right now that we have, specific to human trafficking, 27 active criminal investigations. Obviously, it continues to compile over the number of years, because with the complexity of human trafficking cases, it tends to take multiple years, so we don't have easily defined statistics.
We also refer, as a matter of standard procedure, all trafficking investigations to the RCMP, with some exceptional circumstances. Specific to human smuggling we also have 171 active cases, but our systems don't necessarily identify the statistics on the number of victims. I couldn't be able to answer that today.
You have my apologies, Mr. Chair.