Thank you.
I can definitely echo the sentiments of Mr. Flynn that survivors are expecting us to fail. When those calls come in at three o'clock in the morning to the police station, or they bring a young person there.... A few months ago, that call was coming to me. Every call made by the greater Sudbury police and the OPP covering our jurisdiction in terms of human trafficking comes to me and my team. We're there at three o'clock in the morning and we're back in the office at eight o'clock in the morning.
I commend everyone who works in victim services in anti-human trafficking, because it's a hard job. We're faced with a survivor who says, “I need this. I need safety. I need a shelter bed where the people there understand that I will be waking up screaming in the middle of the night, remembering them branding me.” They need a place where they won't be disturbing other people who have their own challenges and their own trauma.
As Mr. Flynn said, human trafficking is so unique. It's making a commodity of a human being. That trauma doesn't just end in one year, in 365 days.