We know that there continue to be gaps everywhere in all of our responses, but I'm going to take us back to the fact that we do have a national strategy, yet we do not have a national action plan. The first pillar in our strategy was to strike a survivor table. Where is our survivor table? Where are our voices to lead this conversation?
We continue to do the work. We are not funded and we are conflated with every other issue in the sex industry. I am not somebody who chose prostitution by way of agency. I am not talking about whether that's an issue before your committee. That is a separate conversation.
We want to prevent sex trafficking. We want to prevent it and supply support beyond being able to allow somebody to get a conviction, but I don't believe that just convictions are the answer either. We have to understand mental health and sexual impulsive behaviour as it is addressed. Mental health is our community responsibility.
There is an intersectionality between government and the public, and we have to work together on this. I believe that if this committee is addressing human trafficking right now, if you look at some of my brief.... There will be a more robust document provided with lots of information and research. We can't cherry-pick the current and most popular thing we need to deal with within this issue. We have to look at it all. We have to table a national action plan that has oversight by cohorts that are established as your survivor table to give you guidance to get through this so that you're not here dealing with this once again when I'm in the ground.
I just want to say that it might take subsectioning and dividing some of the issues as you prioritize them to be able to manage the work, because right now the fight between labour trafficking, cyber-trafficking, sex trafficking, child trafficking.... There's no such thing, because that's called child rape under our laws. The division that happens between us is not going to help. I implore you to work through this. We need a national action plan.