Your question is excellent. There's only one problem: it may have come a year too soon. It's precisely on these questions that we want to start working. This year, we've chosen to work on demand with regard to the same concerns as you have. We've hired Ms. Lebrun specifically to work on these questions.
We know that there is a way of doing something, because a country like Sweden worked in this area a number of years ago. It finally came up with legislation and achieved results. Naturally, nothing's perfect, but this is probably the best of the less than perfect, and it's definitely not by legalizing prostitution that they got there, on the contrary. Now a few distinctions must be made, and there must be programs that are well directed. That's what we want to work on.
With your permission, I'd like to take a few moments to respond to Ms. Grewal. If I understood correctly, one of her questions concerned minors. One of our associates, a nun, works in Vancouver for Citizenship and Immigration Canada and deals with unaccompanied children. She knows a number of children who come from Latin America, from El Salvador and Honduras. These children work in Vancouver for organized crime, transporting and delivering drugs to clients. Young minor children are being used to do this work because they're not targeted by police officers; they look innocent; they don't look like much. A number are on the street doing this kind of work, trafficked by organized crime and exploited by it on a regular and daily basis.
There are other phenomena. I witnessed one personally: a young girl 12 years old arrived in Montreal with her alleged parents, who left her in Montreal at the home of an aunt, who wanted to use her to help take care of her children. Knowing the situation, we quickly managed to have her go to school, have a normal life and have her rights respected. However, she had come to take care of young children, somewhat like a slave, but, ultimately, she had come to help her aunt. Perhaps in her culture, that was something that might be acceptable, but it was a form of trafficking and exploitation. This has often happened to these types of children, who have become orphans as a result of all the wars there have been in Central Africa.