Absolutely, and I think it's very important. As we talk about resources for prosecution, we need to be reminded that there's a prevention element, there's a prosecution element, and there's a protection element. Within that protection element we can go to what the root causes are of migration.
It's very important not to homogenize who is a trafficked woman and why she is moving. Every woman has her own particular reasons for her migration; however, there are obviously some root causes. Largely, poverty is one, and I think that's important to address, not only in transnational migrations, where global economic disparities are at play, but also within Canada as well, where intergenerational poverty and other historical factors are fueling the vulnerability of our aboriginal women in particular. As I noted, there's also the dispossession and displacement of people as a result of armed conflict and disasters.
By and large, the women I work with are economic migrants. I think we need to decriminalize that notion. We need to understand that we are now a generation into the effects of globalization, and there isn't an economist alive who thinks that globalization is a good idea anymore. Now we're having to pay the price, which is that we have 190 million people who are travelling the planet without homes. We know that we have the resources to actually provide, from a human rights perspective, but we need to be courageous and do that. We need to act on it.