It's a difficult issue, for us in Canada and internationally, for any country to identify the dynamics and the actual numbers, whether it's totally within the borders of a country or across the border. In the context of domestic trafficking, what we have to this point in time remains primarily anecdotal types of information that we've gleaned from discussions with NGO partners or provincial partners who are active on the ground at a regional, local level.
As well, from the reported case law that we've seen under the existing Criminal Code cases, they tend to be, for example, younger persons who are more vulnerable. They're usually young teenage girls, often below the age of eighteen, who just choose to move to another place or run away from home, or they've hooked up with somebody who has basically taken them under control, either under the guise of a friendly situation or has actually taken them in under a trafficking situation and moved them perhaps from one urban area to another or from a rural area to an urban area.
So we don't have numbers on how it is actually occurring. We understand that those who would be at greatest risk, based on what we've seen in the reported case law, are the younger teenagers, who tend to be more vulnerable to being exploited. They don't have the means. They're running away from violence at home or other forms of violence.
Of course, within the aboriginal community, there would be a greater risk. That is our understanding to this point, that there may be greater exposure there.