I find this extremely interesting. I worked for ten years on this human trafficking issue, and I have a son in the RCMP, in the ICE Unit. It's the same struggle we see here in committee. It was so difficult to get human trafficking considered as a topic.
It is a growing industry. Professor Poulin, your presentation was one of the best I've heard, and I've been all over the world, on three continents. It was good and very honest. Even your criticisms of what needs to be done are very much appreciated. We're talking about a struggle in the human philosophy of right or wrong.
I would like to have a comment from you. First, do you believe that the sex industry is an industry, or that it should be looked on as an industry? Second, what are your views on legalizing prostitution? Our present government would never do this. It's not something we consider healthy for Canadians or the community. Yet we've heard something on this from another witness. I'm as baffled as my colleague Ms. Mourani. This is foreign to me in light of my experience on the ground, working in shelters.
I would like to have comments from both of you on this. Professor Poulin, you could answer first and then Ms. Jeffrey.