You can talk about the issue of trafficking. That's an issue that came to our radar screen a number of years ago, when not very many people in the country were prepared to look at it. Status of Women Canada did something at that time. A number of departments were working on pieces of that puzzle but were not necessarily looking at it from a gender perspective. What we set out to do was commission some research to find out more about the magnitude or the kind of problem that existed.
We also co-chaired, with the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, a round table of the appropriate officials, meaning officials from Justice, the Solicitor General, Foreign Affairs, CIC obviously, and Status of Women, to look at the different components. That work led to a more gendered, I would say, protocol that was signed in Palermo on human trafficking and smuggling. Canada's contribution was important in engendering that, and I would say Status of Women was really part of the catalyst that made it happen.
That also led domestically to the new Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. In that act, there is an offence on human trafficking that can bring penalties of up to a million dollars and life in prison.
So that's how Status of Women contributed to that.