Thank you for the question.
Definitely, when you're looking at statistics, I know they're all over the place. I was listening to the earlier session around the lack of data around this issue because of.... It's the tip of the iceberg in the stats we're seeing. In some communities, I would imagine the numbers are probably even substantially higher.
Our statistics, for instance, are showing.... In our program alone, which is the largest indigenous anti-human trafficking program in Canada, from 2017 to 2022, we helped support 858 exits of human trafficking through 12,000 contacts. This is our own data that we're tracking with the women we've been working with. There is definitely some.... The communities that have indigenous women have either higher rates than 50% in some of the smaller communities....
I think as long as this issue continues to exist, we're failing. We're failing indigenous women as a community, as a society and as a system. We need to be doing more to keep indigenous women safe. There's a connection between missing and murdered indigenous women and girls and human trafficking. There's a direct correlation between missing girls, missing children and missing women and a connection to human trafficking, and—