Madam Chair, I would like to thank you for your presence and for your words.
I appreciated your saying, Mr. Dandurand, that sometimes we waste time on definitions and procedures; this is true. I experience this myself in connection with street gangs. We waste time defining what a gang is and determining whether it involves organized crime. It is a big problem. Our being unable to agree on definitions makes it possible, in a way, for the phenomenon to grow without any evaluation or control from us.
According to the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, 92% of human trafficking victims end up in prostitution. It is estimated that 48% of victims are children.
Do you think that legislation that decriminalized procuring and consequently bawdy houses would only help to liberate an underground, undervalued market? Do you think that would only make it easier for these criminal networks to operate? That is my first question.
My second question is as follows. When a nation—Canada or the Quebec nation—gives out temporary visas for so-called artists who are generally headed for the male entertainment industry, do you think we are opening the door to trafficking? Do you think that this program should be abolished? I feel that this is a sort of somewhat disguised legal trafficking.