Thank you.
That's exactly what I mean. Many of our young people especially during COVID-19 were isolated and put into positions where they were looking for their networks and community attachments through things like the Internet. This made them very vulnerable to strangers who were out there to exploit them.
Violence is a real thing in our communities. It's been so normalized that people don't realize that when these young people are being sexualized through the Internet, they become victims and fall prey to people who are trying to exploit them. We've heard many stories—I know they haven't been in the news—where many of our young people have been brought out of their homes and taken to other cities, even into other countries, and have been exploited. They're very hard to find. Our indigenous young women don't get sought after like a non-indigenous person who's gone missing.