Yes, we are focusing mainly on the preventive side. For us in Alberta the challenge is that we are dealing with an issue that has been growing over the years that we have been here.
When we came here, we initially settled and then when we got that piece of paper saying that we were citizens, we were supposed to move beyond that to integration. That isn't happening. What is happening is that our families are usually quite large, so there are a lot of young people who have nothing to do. There is nothing else for them, because there is nothing in their community and nobody outside waiting for them other than the criminals. So for us, when we have experienced that, we have look backed and asked what happened.
We ask ourselves how we can prevent...not prevent these newcomers from coming. Again, the community is working on the preventive side, but at the same time there are a lot of fish in the pond, and getting them out of that pond is more difficult than we thought. We don't even know how to get them out. That is the reality.
We keep finding that one of them gets killed because of that. Some of them try to get out. We knew two of them who tried to get away but they became victims because they knew too much and the others didn't want them to get away. We knew two of them who had Greyhound tickets and wanted to go back to their families, but they ended up dead.