Thank you so much, Chair.
I'm sorry for my laughter and cackle. I just thought that was funny. I actually don't know many people who go to a fast food restaurant and say that they just love their job flipping a burger at two in the morning, but anyway, I apologize for my cackle.
To start off, I want to go back to Madam Lam.
You spoke about needing an alternative to police. I'm actually trying to put forward an initiative for murdered and missing indigenous women and girls, which is a red dress alert. I'm saying that the oversight needs to be separate from police.
Here's why: We were just in Halifax. I wasn't shocked, but I think it was broader than I thought. They talked about customers. In terms of sex work customers, they found, in a study of sex work, that 50% were law enforcement and 38.9% were professionals such as doctors and lawyers, so that's part of the judiciary. Landlords and employers were 38.9%, which wasn't surprising. Political, spiritual and cultural leaders—so I'd say political is part of that—were 27.8% in terms of consumers.
That makes sense to me in that you can't have people overseeing your protection objectively if they're your customers. Is that one of the reasons why?