I see it as fulfilling a central function of gathering all the research, but making substantive proposals and actually working with departments to implement pilot projects and to direct funding. So this would be the office that would actually have a framework in place where they can decide where the funding is going. This isn't to take control away from the department; it's to try to put accountability in the hands of a single point that's responsible for dealing with it.
Right now, if an organization wants to meet with the federal interlocutor for human trafficking, I ask you, who do they call? What's the number? There is none. People have been told to talk to the justice minister or the foreign affairs minister, and that's all fine and good, but we're talking about really low, street-level work.
I'm an aid worker. I have a victim in my house. What do I do? Who do I tell that person to call?
We get calls like that as an organization, through our website, so there needs to be an answer to that question.