I would like to thank you once again for being here today. You're making me take a different look at journalists.
I have a question for Mr. Sher, but I'm going to continue in English.
Although I haven't read it, I know, Mr. Sher, that you've written a book entitled One Child at a Time: The Global Fight to Rescue Children from Online Predators. You touched very briefly at the beginning of your remarks about similar issues, the kidnapping of a young girl getting headlines. I have a quote that came to my attention from Beyond Borders regarding this issue. It says:
In terms of sentencing in Canada for crimes against children in general, they are very, very, very lenient. Traffickers of human beings, especially children, are not individuals that should get a slap on the wrist. A message should be sent from the courtroom--and that's what Joy Smith is trying to do--that there's no tolerance for this type of behaviour.
Your comment about headlines occurring when a girl gets kidnapped is an area I'd like to explore, because it struck me that perhaps you were drawing a link between that kind of activity and organized crime. So I wonder if you can tell me anything about what degree of human trafficking might exist in Montreal, and to what degree organized crime may be involved in it, and in what degree there is profi--those kinds of questions.
Merci.