What we have is the RCMP data, which is that 800 people are trafficked into Canada, and 1,500 to 2,200 are trafficked through Canada. Now, NGOs don't have the surveillance and other kinds of resources to do statistics that way, and I actually think the request for statistics, from the NGO perspective, anyway, is coming to us from a need to document and identify the experience. Our response is to say that these are people in migration; these are people who are vulnerable. The numbers should not be the issue--one woman is too many.
In terms of definition, we pretty much use the protocol definition, even though it's problematic in our work. I think it's important to understand that extending our understanding of what we mean by trafficking is really important, and the conflation of sexual exploitation to the exclusion of other forms of labour exploitation also does a disservice to those who are having their labour rights violated.