Status of Women committee  Who wouldn't be in favour of something like that? However, there's a lot to be done in areas like drugs and psychological distress, before opting for that solution, even though it's deeply needed.

Status of Women committee  You've been talking about culture, and in doing so have zeroed in on the problem. In sports clubs and schools generally, young people are learning about sex increasingly early. I'm dumbfounded by what Ms. Mourani just said, about how young people were trying to circumvent the law, and how 14‑year-old girls were looking for ways to earn some money through sex.

Status of Women committee  I fully agree.

Status of Women committee  Firstly, more initiatives of this kind are needed, alongside what the police do. It's a way of having people unofficially working under cover in the field. Training should be provided to those who work at strategic points along land transportation routes. The corridor for sexual exploitation in Canada has been known for years.

Status of Women committee  I'd like to talk to you about the inflexibility of the structure. At the moment, it's blatant and can be seen everywhere. It's true of the police. The lack of communication is also obvious. If the current structure were more flexible and brought people from various walks of life together, instead of just categorizing everything, it would change a lot of things.

Status of Women committee  Since we're talking about online hate, why not go straightaway to online sexual exploitation? They're interrelated. Whether we're talking about child pornography or human trafficking on the dark web—yes it exists—traffickers and consumers are mainly men. And they come from all levels of society; they could be businessmen, lawyers, students, construction workers or computer programmers.

Status of Women committee  Everything related to hate needs to be linked to sexual exploitation, because that's what can happen as a result. It often does happen, in any event. Unfortunately, what we usually see is men exploiting women. We need to ask ourselves all kinds of questions about this.

Status of Women committee  You mentioned that earlier. I think it's one of the keys to the solution. The police are trained to respond to emergency calls and complaints. Their work is crucial. As for sex trafficking hot spots, like massage partners, transitional apartments and red-light districts, it's important to rely on street workers' knowledge.

Status of Women committee  Personally, I don't see what legalizing these drugs would accomplish, particularly in the case of the extremely hard drugs I talked about. It would be flatly unacceptable to legalize those drugs. My position is firm: legalizing that type of drugs would amount to running head-first into a wall.

Status of Women committee  The official statistics say that women account for 96% of human trafficking victims, whether what's involved is sexual exploitation or forced labour. It's important to point out that for every person who comes forward, nine others do not. We agree that all we're seeing at the moment is the tip of the iceberg.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. The federal government could have the responsibility of engaging in dialogue with the provinces so these kinds of things don't happen. At present, the provinces are not talking to one another. I don't know how a mechanism could be set up to make things run more smoothly.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. The federal government would have the power to work with the provincial authorities to offer training in the schools for pre-adolescent boys on consent and how to treat women in society, in intimate relationships and sexually, whether on the Internet or in real life.

Status of Women committee  It means looking for the potential victim at the source, before the situation becomes extremely traumatic. We have to act in the hot spots where it is primarily happening, whether that is in hotels or in bars.

Status of Women committee  Think of a minor who meets someone who is going to manipulate her, for sexual purposes, very obviously, who will probably become her pimp. Often, he puts her under a yoke by pretending to become her husband. The minor becomes inherently tied to him and ceases to exist. It starts somewhere.

Status of Women committee  So we have to do something about this. Psychotropic drugs have been on the market for a long time. It will soon be 30 years. I don't understand why we haven't already put some thought into this, when people on the ground are suffering the consequences.