I would make two quick comments in response to your question.
One is that you'd be hard pressed to find an organization trying to work with victims of human trafficking or helping them come forward that does not have serious resource issues. Of course, all of those organizations are constantly looking for resources, but right now it's at a very critical stage.
In the few cases that have come forward, special measures have had to be put together, either by the RCMP or others, to deal with the immediate needs, but that's not sustainable. At one point there needs to be a network of services available for rapid response.
Luckily, we haven't had any major cases involving numerous victims recently, but it can happen. We can have another container full of victims or you can have a dozen children showing up one day at the border or somewhere. All of a sudden, we require a special effort to be made, and we're not there, and the services are not there.
On the cooperation issue, I think the experience in which I had an opportunity to participate in British Columbia shows that it's not only agreeing to work together. It's very complex and it's very delicate. There are all kinds of things to be looked at, such as privacy, security of victims, and so on.
It calls for very detailed agreements, protocol, and inter-agency protocol. Certainly, in British Columbia, it took them at least a year to come to a common understanding of who was going to do what, at what time, with whose cooperation, and so on. Of course, in order to develop those agreements, you need commitment and you need resources. Resources are a major issue.
We haven't had large cases, but we should be prepared for that, because it is a pattern. Oftentimes, when you find one victim, you find ten, fifteen, or twenty. It's a pattern. No criminal organization deals in one victim. If there is one victim, there are others. The question is, where do you find the others? Then all of a sudden you have an immediate need for a lot of services for a group of victims.