It absolutely makes sense that we need to equip law enforcement as much as possible to be able to respond to this crime. A lot of what we're asking for is to do just that, but we're also asking for the information to be communicated effectively to those who are responding to this crime.
With regard to making sure it gets drafted correctly, my colleague mentioned that a lot of times some of our residents will give a statement to the police or at the hospital in triage and say, “No, no—he's my boyfriend. It's okay. I want him in the room with me. I'm really happy he's here. He's really supportive”. Then that statement is dragged into the whole case and used as evidence that maybe it wasn't as bad as she's saying it is now. We don't want to see that happen. We want to make sure that those kinds of statements and that kind of evidence don't get to be used as evidence to the contrary. We know that those kinds of statements are given as a survival technique or defence mechanism and that they are merely part of the case of trafficking and part of its complexity.