Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses for appearing today, and particularly I want to thank Ms. Smiley for reminding us that the growing inequalities in Canadian society are a constant context with all of the issues that we deal with.
I want to thank Ms. Smith for telling her personal story here in a very public forum. It takes an enormous amount of strength to do so and I know that it will inspire others who have or may have been exploited to do better things in their lives.
Ms. Smith, in one of your answers you said that you thought perhaps the criminalization would prevent reporting of incidents of exploitation. Can you just say a bit more about that and maybe relate it to your own....? Are you saying that because things are criminalized people won't report when they see exploitation?