Yes, I'm sure none of us around this table want to see another person trafficked. It is coercive behaviour that really does strike at depriving a person of their dignity: their physical dignity, their sexual dignity, and all sorts of different things. I think we would all agree that we never want to see any of that done.
If we talk about the conviction rates, Dr. Carrie, I think it really goes hand in hand with the nature of the offence, which is the manipulation. It is the abuse of trust in a lot of cases, and typically, the only way to prove the case is going to be through the victim. There isn't going to be some other mechanism. If the evidence isn't going to be coming from the victim, who themselves may have been manipulated, and who is almost always going to have been abused and, oftentimes, is somebody who is otherwise marginalized, then it doesn't surprise me that we see really low conviction rates. I support making legislation that would enable the courts to deal with what I think is really a plague that we underestimate in our society.
You spoke about onus, and sometimes we talk about onus in law. We talk about reverse onuses a lot—we're not going to talk about that here—but you did mention onus. I just want to be clear. This isn't a reverse onus in the legislation, where it talks about...I think you said the onus is on the accused's behaviour. What I take you to mean in that case is that we're looking at what the accused person does and not at what the victim perceives. Is that accurate?