Thank you. It's certainly a privilege to be here and to listen to this discussion. I want to thank all of you for coming. By way of clarification, since we've had some comments regarding the age of consent and the current law, if a 50-year-old has sexual relations with a 14-year-old and that 50-year-old is charged criminally, typically, legal counsel for the perpetrator will use consent as a defence. If that defence is made--and often it is because the child is on the stand--defence counsel grills the child. Eventually there is an admission that there was consent, and the perpetrator goes scot-free. The age of protection legislation will remove the defence of consent. So in that sense, it would make it illegal.
My first question is to Ms. Soltys. Addressing the issue of trafficking again, not only within Canada but in Ukraine, I'm curious, are you aware of the degree, if any, to which Russian organized crime or perhaps eastern bloc organized crime is involved in the trafficking of children, both in Canada and in eastern Europe?