The definition we rely upon is the definition in the Criminal Code. So we accept that there are women out there who will commit themselves to prostitution. When we're talking about human trafficking, there have to be elements of coercion, and there are elements of control, which take many forms. That is the difference. They're victims.
As my colleague from the Vancouver police alluded, in a number of cases when these individuals are from abroad and we are trying to get their collaboration to provide the police and the courts with that evidence, they're not willing to cooperate; they just prefer to return to their home country. But that is where we make the distinction of whether there is a form of control, a form of coercion, meaning they are no longer doing it wittingly but are doing it unwittingly.
Sometimes those forms of control and coercion are not necessarily evident at first blush. You have to really look at it. The victims may not even recognize themselves as victims in the first instance. So the purpose of law enforcement through investigations, whether undercover operations or more complex investigations, is to try to bring out that evidence.
