I'd like to say that this issue is not necessarily new, but under the words “human trafficking”, it is. I've been involved in vice work since back in 1989. We were seeing people coming from overseas back then and being prostituted in Toronto, and they were deported after the legal process was dealt with. But I haven't noticed a huge increase in it from 1989 until now, so I ask why they aren't coming forward. I think it's because we don't offer enough to support them.
And it's not just in the sex trade. There are nannies who are abused, and people in modelling agencies. It goes far beyond that. I just don't think we have enough in place for them to trust our system to be able to provide them with that support.
There's an awful lot of money being made out there, and I don't think enough has been done to go after them. That's why I was talking about harsher penalities. We need to go for proceeds of crime and try to take them down.