Our foremost recommendation was on enforcement. The second one followed from that: we need education and training for all those involved in the law enforcement process, which means police, judges, immigration officials, prosecutors, and the diplomatic community. They need to know and be sensitive to the issue of trafficking, and they need to know how to identify trafficking, know the methods, the key indicators, the trafficking routes, and the laws. This training would be critical for people deployed overseas as well, because they're in the front lines and will have the ability to spot trafficking at the source.
Canada's education and training efforts should also focus on building capacity in those countries where trafficking is prevalent. That's something that we can do given our influence with a lot of countries. We should be giving financial and technical assistance, for instance to support special anti-trafficking police units and prosecutorial teams with training, operational support, hands-on assistance, and maybe even helping countries write legislation on anti-trafficking--all those things that focus on actually having laws in place, enforcing them, and sending offenders to jail.
Also, I think we've touched on the need for domestic awareness, and we can work in partnership with NGOs and other stakeholders. For instance, since November 2005, Air Canada has been showing inflight videos on the issue of child sexual exploitation. We can work with those national forums. We can use schools, faith communities, groups such as scouts, and those sorts of organizations.
We would also urge members of Parliament to become more aware of the issues of human trafficking. We would recommend that a group of parliamentarians actually travel to countries such as Cambodia and Thailand to see trafficking for yourself.
I think other people have mentioned that we need a national action plan. That action plan should encompass both what we're doing in Canada and what is being done internationally. We really can't combat trafficking just by looking at Canadian issues. We need to be looking at international issues.