Thanks for these very thoughtful questions. What I would say is akin to what Charlene was saying.
I'll tell you that I was an emergency crisis social worker in the pediatric hospital here in Halifax, where I would see children and adolescents in all sort of crises. There was a small but very significant group of young women coming in who were doing blow jobs in trailers to get tickets to the midway. This type of exploitation happens in all sorts of contexts, and it's part of what we talked about in terms of legislation.
For me, it's a complicated question around what the true root causes of this are and why, although it's not a silver bullet, the public health approach that we're talking about is.... We really want to be able to support people where they are, and this goes back to what Temi was saying around child welfare and whether our children who are growing up in child welfare are adequately supported around these issues, because they're especially vulnerable.
There are a couple of things. We need peer outreach workers across the country. We have an amazing team who themselves had been exploited and who are now our staff. They are the number one resource that we have as a community. They are the ones to whom I would send my children if, God forbid, I were in a situation. They understand the harm.
To answer the question on our resources, we as a community have to understand the welfare of our young people broadly writ.