Thank you, Madam Chair.
I have a multi-tiered question.
One of the things we've been talking about is addressing what is essentially a horrific situation and a horrific problem. We don't even know what the numbers are. There's no way of gauging it, no way of actually finding out how many victims there are.
It was said here that we can't tell other nations what to do with respect to the victims of trafficking, but we can address the trafficking that we know exists domestically. It most certainly does exist here, particularly among aboriginal women and girls. They are the most vulnerable.
We've talked about prosecution and prevention. I'd like to focus a little more on prevention and the things we can do, because we're not helpless. We can do some things in this country in regard to that, and I think through the social structures.
For example, we know about poverty. The report is very clear that while we can't necessarily address the demand for sexual exploitation, we can address poverty, and through a number of ways.
For example, one in six children in this country is growing up in poverty, and they become much more susceptible to the realities of poverty and to the wish to escape that poverty through one means or another. Those children are from homes where there are single moms who don't have access to child care and can't escape the poverty trap. We know that only 30% of young women who contribute to unemployment insurance are able to collect it when they are out of work. We know that self-employed women are not eligible to collect unemployment insurance. We know that there is a housing crisis in this country, yet we have no national housing strategy.
It seems to me that some of the solutions in terms of prevention are here. I'm wondering what this government is prepared to do to make sure there truly is a secure child care system that moms and young families can depend on; so that there is a national housing strategy; so that there is help when people are unemployed; so that those one in six children aren't so vulnerable; so that those women are not so vulnerable and aren't susceptible to the enticements of the predators we know are out there.