Just on forced marriages...?
Well, I'm going to be presenting next week to the Senate committee on zero tolerance, as they're calling it. We're very upset, very disturbed. It's very discriminatory, but we'll talk about that another time. It's how the government is dealing with such an issue. It doesn't help to be discriminated against doubly or triply.
However, with regard to forced marriages, that's been going on for quite some time, and as I mention in my paper, I don't think it's happening only with immigrants. I think that's what our concern is. We are concerned about forced marriages, just as we are concerned about early age marriages, and just as we are concerned about domestic violence. But to single out forced marriages, what is happening is that it's not such a huge problem, but that's not to say even one isn't too many.
We've been working with SALCO for the past four or five years, and we've looked at other models, like the one in Britain, which has criminalized it now. They have a fabulous network in other countries where these young women are being taken. We've been presenting to the federal government that what they need to do is to build links with countries where these girls might be taken. The British model is mostly with Pakistan, where they have a very good system protocol. I think it's one of the Norwegian or Scandinavian countries—I don't know which one it is—which also has a very good protocol with the other countries. Canada could do that to protect girls being taken from here. We would also suggest that raising the age of marriage might help, but child welfare needs to be involved.
There was an incident about five or six years ago of a younger girl under 16, and all of us got together and brought the girl back from where she had been taken. There's a lot that needs to be done, but again, I think we should make sure that we don't keep focusing only on immigrants. It's happening here. I think we should universalize all this. Don't pick on one group, please.