Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
For the record, I'm very grateful to Ms. Khalid for this motion and this investigation on human trafficking. From the numbers we were just given by our officials, 21 million to 45 million, it's easy to see why many people say that slavery today is greater than it's ever been.
Down the street from where I live in Ancaster, Canada's largest human trafficking arrest to date took place, which was a forced labour arrest. A gang of organized criminals was bringing people in from Hungary and threatening them, causing them not only to work 14 or 16 hours a day and turn over all their income but also to do illegal things, such as apply for welfare, etc., and break into post office boxes. Generally speaking, the people who do this kind of crime will do any other kind of crime as well.
The reason I lay this groundwork is how much human trafficking in a country such as India is organized crime versus individual gangsters taking advantage of a culture that has the caste system endemic within it?