Madam Chair, the people from the coalition of organizations that are ensuring there will be no sex traffic in Vancouver assured us that everything was going well and that everything would be operational in Vancouver. Now we discover that is not the case. Vancouver police say they do not communicate with that group, with the unit that has been put in place.
The unit put in place is doing nothing at this time. The Vancouver police force is doing nothing either. They don't have the means to do anything. I don't understand how we can stop people at the border between Seattle and Vancouver. However, what is happening for the people who are already in Canada, in Toronto, for example?
Prostitutes took part in a news report and said that their pimps were already getting organized for them to be in Vancouver. They also said that a number of other prostitutes from across Canada, prostitutes who work the streets, were getting organized to go to Vancouver. Those people won't be crossing any borders, and this will nevertheless be human trafficking on a large scale. We'll be dealing with a problem of human trafficking on a large scale. The Salvation Army has already established a place to help persons who will be in dangerous situations.
If the unit set up isn't able to do the job, that must be because there are deficiencies. We have to know what those deficiencies are in order to give it the resources to do its job right.
We're working hard on this matter. Ms. Smith has worked very hard on human trafficking. We shouldn't let that slip through the net. There are only 67 days left before the Olympic Games, which does not leave a lot of time to put an efficient system into place to ensure that there is no human trafficking in Vancouver. We have to be brought up to date.