The real case is of those youth who are coming up to us from down south. We see them on a regular basis. Some are as young as 14 years old. Of course, we have concerned parents who are reaching out and asking for some support. They go originally to the Toronto police and then come to us. They're asking for some support to locate these kids.
Really, when we're talking about the exploitation of these youth, they're getting involved in all kinds of different crimes and gang activities. Having in the legislation more immediate access would be a real benefit to us. When we start to see the chains and the links between some of the groups down south and these kids who are coming up here, it would be really beneficial to us to get ahead of it, especially when we're looking for these youth. We have real-life cases of families who have come up and asked us to go out and help search for their youth. Quite often, we find them involved in drug activities or the gang-related work that's being done in this community.
That happens on a regular basis. On average right now, I'd say we've probably gone from 60% to 50% of the people involved in that type of activity coming from southern Ontario. Again, they are very young people who are involved and exploited. We are looking at some of those cases. Are they being human-trafficked? They are coming into our flophouses, and then they end up doing all kinds of activities.
This is a real concern for us. I think if we had the ability to access a bit sooner, it would be a definite benefit to us to enforce some of the acts that we do.