I want to especially thank Sergeant Lowe and Mr. Dandurand for coming today.
I agree with Ms. Mourani that this kind of program needs to be shut down. Our side of the House is endeavouring to do exactly that.
We've talked a lot about international cooperation. Some of the insightful comments that you both brought forward have been extremely useful. I would like to ask Sergeant Lowe a specific question. A lady coming to our committee has been working in a modelling agency for a long time. There are numerous stories. These are Caucasian Canadian women who have been trafficked to other countries. It's done in a unique way and she will describe it. Modelling agencies have big events in which the girls pay $500 to show everybody how beautiful they are. They think they're being launched on an exciting career, and then it becomes something else.
You said something about needing resource materials, like the video that the RCMP have out right now. I've seen this video, and I commend the RCMP for putting it together. It's so helpful and so tastefully done. The resources for getting other videos out to community centres and other such places need to be made available quickly.
With respect to these girls in modelling agencies, could you comment on the structure that is used, where these innocent girls suddenly find themselves in other countries, their documents are taken away, and they are forced to do things just to survive? We have one such girl that I'm hoping will come to committee to share her experience with us. Time will tell whether she'll be brave enough to do this during the committee hearings we have before Christmas.
Can you tell me what would be most useful for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in terms of their programming and the objectives discussed this morning? You've talked about expanding your way of doing things to non-governmental organizations and community centres.
We've recently put 1,000 new RCMP officers on Canadians streets. But we have a big problem here. As you've both so eloquently put it, people are only now becoming aware of what's going on. It's been a little secret society. Had I not been the mother of a police officer, had I not been the justice critic for Manitoba at one time, I would never have known about it.
I think it behooves all of us to join in this tremendous fight. I would ask the two of you, beginning with Sergeant Lowe, to give us some insight into this matter.