There are several situations with the silos we have. There are incredible people all over Canada who are working in this area, but we work within our own spheres. Things are changing, but different police organizations....
For example, we had a case just recently. If you are a trafficking victim or a survivor here in Ottawa and you are being moved between different jurisdictions, oftentimes with the links between different police agencies, organizations and victim services organizations there are jurisdictional boundaries that complicate things, and although you can work it out maybe a day or two down the road, when it's three o'clock in the morning and you're trying to save a girl's life and get her to safety or some kind of a shelter.... We need to tear that down so that there is collaboration among all of those agencies.
It is not only that. From a data perspective, we all need data, and nobody is really getting serious about, first of all, identifying the different forms of trafficking and identifying the data that is vital to legislators. When we come with our hand out saying we need help funding this, that or the other thing, we need to have good, sustainable, credible data to provide. We don't have that right now.
We've got the human trafficking hotline—it's fantastic—and we've got each of the local victim services agencies, and that's fantastic. All the different social services groups have their individual data, but we're not working together to share that data. If I had to ask somebody today how many girls called, we would not be able to provide that answer.