I think anyone who is marginalized, specifically women who live in poverty, are extremely vulnerable to pimps recruiting them—because we have to remember the other end of it; it's the pimps who go to the communities.
I was just in Alberta, and we know that pimps go to the communities, the rural communities especially, where there are young women who can't find jobs, suggesting that they should come and be striptease dancers. Of course, that's a way to get them into prostitution.
Young girls who run away from their homes because their fathers, brothers, or other male relatives have sexually abused them always, I would say, if they're not very lucky, end up in prostitution, because buyers will pick them up and suggest that they should get somewhere to sleep and some food.
There are racialized women, women who come here, and of course then women who are trafficked here.
Another group of women who I worked with when I lived in Vancouver were Philippine women who came here on domestic worker visas. We were just starting a project then, because we had noticed that quite a few of those women ended up in prostitution. They were brought here for forced marriages, and then they were thrust into the massage parlours and escort services of Vancouver.
Poverty is not a cause, but poverty is a condition that makes women vulnerable. The cause is that men buy them, and the condition is what women live in.