You've raised a very good point. The problem is in tracking those people who are on the margins of society. We're talking about those people who are drug addicts or prostitutes, about those who really may go missing for a period of time. Nobody reports them as missing. Or when they are reported missing, they could have switched locations.
Again, the solution to this is twofold. One is a national database of missing persons that can adequately track who is missing, so that there is the link to the information systems of all police services, and when this person is relocated.... In Calgary, for instance, it could be a young girl who is a prostitute on the stroll and disappears. She may show up a year later in Vancouver under a different name.
It's very hard to track that information. There has to be a national database that not only tracks missing persons but accesses their information in the system, so that when the same person shows up as being arrested for shoplifting or whatever, it searches that database.
It's a very complex issue because, number two, you're absolutely right, in that there is a huge number, I'm sure, of homicides that occur where we're not even sure they've occurred because the person has a transient or high-risk lifestyle. They could have switched jurisdictions and we aren't able to track that adequately.
Again, it's resource intensive. All police services are faced with deciding on dealing with the dead body that's on the ground now after a gang shooting or tracking a missing person, who, in the majority of cases, will usually show up sometime later in another jurisdiction or sometimes even show up as being out of the country.
Organized crime uses that gap in the system to facilitate things like human trafficking. They can abduct somebody or get them under the influence of drugs and move them to another country, where they're prostituted.
I'm not going to pretend that we have the solutions to what you're bringing up. I'm just agreeing that there is an issue there and that our numbers don't adequately reflect what is actually happening in the real world.