Thank you very much, Chair.
Petra and Ed, last time we met in person, but it's good to have you here at the committee today. Thank you for all the work you're doing. We have an obvious London connection, because you are based there with the office. That's where I want to begin, in fact.
I want to ask Petra and Ed, if I could, the following. We see an obvious connection between modern slavery and poverty. It's easy enough to draw that connection, but once we examine it further, it's not automatic that a society experiencing poverty also has the experience of modern slavery.
I wonder if you could delve into other dimensions deep within the social structure—caste, gender, and perhaps particularly for IJM, the legal system.
Petra, in your presentation, you even drew a link between a feminist approach to international development and access-to-justice programming. Because that's the area of expertise for IJM, I wonder if you could look at that element of the social structure in particular.
If we're going to deal with these problems, we could do it by modelling the legislation here in Canada on what's happened in the United Kingdom with the Modern Slavery Act, and examining supply chains and looking at that very closely to ensure ethical sourcing. However, that will take us only a certain step of the way—in fact, a small step—towards the goal of attacking, meaningfully, the problem of modern slavery.
Please look at that issue of access to justice from a feminist perspective, if you could.