It's highly relevant when we're talking about the way drug policy is unfolding on streets and in organizations across the country. We have these two distinct viewpoints. We have some organizations that are more inclined to say that recovery is the path forward that we need to be prioritizing. Then we have others that have been pushing what I think has actually amounted to enabling drug users by providing them access to the very substances that are causing the problems.
We've also seen, in communities with safe supply, a significant increase in diversion, where the safe supply drugs are then sold in some cases to students, while the person who was given the safe supply drug then gets the money to buy the stronger drug they really want. It's highly relevant if we're talking about creating a pipeline where an organization is going to be receiving funding and then that organization might be participating in something that's making things worse.
If you don't want to answer, that's fine. I just want to stress why this is such a big issue here.
I'll turn to you, Ms. Scarpellini.
On the human trafficking side of things, in a previous bill we had tried to really look at human trafficking and the absence of really strong penalties. Paul Brandt, a country singer who's done a tremendous amount of work on this, has pointed out that human trafficking is not an issue we can pin on any particular community. It's literally everywhere. I'm wondering if you could, in the minute I have left, speak to what that looks like in northern Ontario.