Well, absolutely. I mean, I'm an inner-city high school teacher. I didn't choose to sign up for this. When PCEPA became law, I just started thinking that I would start speaking to law enforcement and to the public to see if they knew about the law and if they were going to enforce it. They had never heard of the law.
I am eight years into presenting this—every single politician in British Columbia knows me—and I cannot believe it: They don't know the law. Even the provincial bureaucrats at our provincial government in public safety don't really understand the law. The phone is ringing off the hook. That's all I can say. I work on this full time, almost seven days a week.
I do want to point out a book, if you want research that's Canadian and national, entitled Sex Industry Slavery: Protecting Canada’s Youth. This is the Ph.D. thesis by Dr. Robert Chrismas. I have been interviewed with him on radio and TV. He is a Winnipeg police officer, and he gets what this looks like.
The thing is that Ontario, because they understand about this—they have a human trafficking coordinator and their police are trained—are literally 30 years ahead of B.C. Manitoba has somebody called Joy Smith.