Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to our witnesses for taking the time to join us here today.
I'll ask this of the Sisters. Madam Wilson and Madam Atkinson, in your report you made some compelling points around two things as issues that need to be addressed. One addressed poverty as a root cause and the other was about the issue of demand, demand particularly for prostitution services.
Throughout the course of our testimony on this issue we've often gone between those two apparent causes. I wonder if you could expand a little on what appears to be a cause-and-effect situation, because we've heard both sides of it. The troubling part for me and perhaps for other committee members is that trying to bring redress to this issue, particularly poverty in the third world, is a massive global issue. Of course, we're dealing with what we can do at the Canadian level. On the other hand, criminal law is something we can change. Could you talk a little bit about which it is? Is it poverty? Is it demand? Which should we really focus on to address this issue?