This committee has indicated a strong concern about what will happen at the Olympics. Frankly, I think that is just a magnification of what can happen every day. Every single day there's the opportunity for women to be trafficked into this country, and children too, because quite often a lot of these women don't have documentation as to their real age, so they may be brought in as adult women making a choice but they're in fact children who are being exploited, exposed to sexual exploitation.
We want that to stop and we want it to stop now. We don't want to wait till 2010. We're talking about women who are being exposed to this degrading treatment on a day-to-day basis, who are being put in these situations. We believe they need protection right away. That's why we want to get this legislation through. We want to make sure that we as a country are doing the right thing by them and doing everything we can to protect vulnerable foreign workers just as soon as possible.
Frankly, I wish it had been done years ago. It hasn't been. I'm impatient to get it done now.