Yes, in response to that, article 279.01, which you were talking about, is actually a provision that allows for the prosecution of human trafficking. Interestingly, when we've done research on it to understand what the differences are...because what we're hearing from a lot of witnesses is the interconnectedness. What we're not hearing are the distinct differences between trafficking and sex work.
Essentially, when we look for numbers, we're not finding a large number of convicted traffickers. The point I was making earlier is: why is it that law that already exists in Canada isn't being enforced or used? Often, in articles in the academic realm of this, what you hear is talk about the difficulty enforcement agencies have nailing it down, because trafficking is elusive and everything. So the question I had to this committee is how that is going to change by the provisions that you're now proposing. Also, what can be done to change that, if it's not already occurring?
In terms of exploitive relationships, one of the things that Bedford does define is what an exploitive relationship is and what it isn't, but it doesn't do it well. There was an earlier question your friend had asked in relation to that, about whether it would be better if we defined that. It's already defined in law and it's already defined in international law, what exploitive behaviour is. It doesn't seem to me that this particular proposed bill has actually looked at that well enough to understand or to distinguish the differences between sex work. Bedford was about sex work; it wasn't about trafficking. We have laws in Canada about trafficking that aren't actually being used well. Maybe addressing those laws would be of assistance.
What is exploitive and what's defined as exploitive? So relationships that help.... An example of this is when a city has massage parlours and they allow for licensing. Is the city living off the avails of prostitution? Is that going to be one of the exemptions under this new legislation? Is that exploitive? Is the city making money? Is it capitalizing or commodifying the same way the friends on the panel have discussed it? Because there's a big difference between exploitive nature and exploitive relationships.