What we realized after this whole incident with Bruce McArthur and the missing men who were South Asian and Middle Eastern
is not everybody has that friend or family member that you can tell
where you're going or what you're doing, and so what we thought is, well, how about we become that friend?
Sometimes it's easier for people to just talk to a stranger than it is to talk to someone that they know
about these things, because that relationship's not there.
It's hard to tell anybody, and there's shame and embarrassment that comes with it, even with family, and even with
friends, telling some friends that I'm meeting someone for the first
time for this, that or the other, whatever it is. Some shame and guilt comes with that.
Sometimes I put myself in situations that could have ended up
in a very bad way, because I had no one to tell.
So this might have been something that I would have used.
I think it's an excellent idea,  and I think it shows care and concern within the community, and it's probably
something that's been needed for a lot longer.
I think two days is too long. I think that if you take two days to find out
if somebody is okay, they're probably not okay. And then it's too late for them.
But, at least the person who is involved might
get caught faster, and it protects the rest of the community. So that would be a plus.
Specifically, people who  are not fully out of the closet,  who are
a little bit more sheltered about what's going on in their personal life,
I think it would be a really good service, because if you're not open with your friends and your family,
you should have somebody who knows about your safety.
The whole purpose of this is that we value you as a person, and we value
your safety, irrespective of who you are, and that's
the only thing. We really don't care if you're going to see a client or
what you're going to be doing when you see this person
who you're going to be seeing. That's not the issue for us. The issue is your
safety and that you actually go home to your family or your community, the way you left it.
