Again, they're recruiting so young now.... This is a predatory crime as much as it is anything else. Let's be clear about that. They're not just picking anybody off the street. There's a profile they're looking for, and often, as we all know, youth who suffer from some of these syndromes already feel like outsiders. The gang plays to that, and it develops a loyalty that's almost impossible to break. Again, they'll spend the next four or five years in that culture, feeling that they belong and feeling that the only people helping them are the gangs themselves, when in fact it's sheer manipulation at every level.
The importance of a law like this—and we've heard it all, as we've heard it in the questions—is that dealing with gangs is a multi-pronged attack. Enforcement is one end of it. Tackling recruitment will protect society's investment in these other projects, because that's what they're coming to: gangs are coming to the places that we're trying to provide for youths so they don't fall into gang life.
It is truly an investment. Again, if I can go further on that, they will drag the youth through layers of gangs in Manitoba so that, as I said earlier, the big fish know what they're getting. It's programming. If you can't break that programming, if you can't intervene in this young person's life, they're never really going to stand a chance of being a functioning or contributing member of society. By the time that switch might go on or they might have that traumatic incident that changes the way they think, they'll have had a decade of garbage coming with them that they'll never overcome. That's why it's important.