Thank you, Chairman.
On the policing and security side, I've also met with Sergeant Lowe and discussed these issues. She's very focused and attuned to the challenges.
It does happen to the degree that it happens, and the aim on the policing side is to try to investigate, find out, expose, and bring to justice those who would perpetrate this activity. Recently there was a case of six individuals that the Peel police were investigating, and there were four others in the Toronto area.
In our view, and I know the view is shared by committee members, I can't think of something much more despicable than a human being enslaving another one, literally, through drugs, fear, extortion, or whatever it might be to get them to perform certain services. That's why we show, and want to show, no sympathy whatsoever to the perpetrators and those who are involved in this.
A component of the funding that, in terms of the increase, has gone to the RCMP over this last year is directed to the challenges with aboriginals. It can be broken out in different departments and different packages. I could ask officials to send those to the committee in terms of exact amounts.
I can tell you that with the national crime prevention strategy, which deals with youth at risk, I have personally overseen the direction of considerable dollars on a specific basis to specific areas, again to groups, sometimes women's groups, reaching out to youth at risk, especially those who have been exposed to the drug trade for the purpose of being enslaved. There are funds directed to that, and that is one example.
I can give you a further breakdown. It covers a number of different areas. Those dollars are directed--