Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to thank the staff for the work plan. It's wonderful, and I agree that the economic security of senior women is very important and we should look at it carefully.
My concern is that we have a rather extensive plan here, and in view of the shortage of time, there's absolutely no way we can waste any time. It is always a concern when we lose time. So in that regard, I think it's very important that we look at violence against women. But I'd like to point out to the committee that there's already been a great deal of work done on human trafficking.
In fact, I have here a bill that was proclaimed in November 2005. On the Department of Justice website, a great deal of information is currently available. There's a pamphlet warning women, in 16 languages, about the perils of trusting people to bring them into the country--trafficking in persons, questions and answers. All kinds of information and work has already been done.
I must commend the Conservative caucus. If we look back at the Hansard from last week, Ms. Smith said that trafficking is a deplorable crime that the government is addressing, and a crime that won't be tolerated.
So if it has already been addressed and is currently being addressed, perhaps we can delete that section and move on to things that are perhaps more pertinent. We have very limited time, and I think it's incumbent upon us to strike new ground and move ahead. There are so many things we haven't done, and I would like to go forward rather than simply staying in place.