Human trafficking or trafficking in persons is one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, often described as a modern day form of slavery. Human trafficking involves the recruitment, transportation, harbouring and/or exercising control, direction or influence over the movements of a person in order to exploit that person, typically through sexual exploitation or forced labour. The victims, who are mostly women and children, are deprived of their normal lives and compelled to provide their labour or sexual services, through a variety of coercive practices all for the direct profit of their perpetrators. Exploitation often occurs through intimidation, force, sexual assault and threats of violence to themselves or their families. Canada is not immune to this practice, indeed it is happening in all of our communities, in all of our backyards and we all have a moral and ethical obligation to assist to end this abhorrent crime.
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“I would like to see more happen at a faster pace. Why has this taken so long? It’s not like we don’t know this is happening. I don’t want to be sitting here ten years from now asking ‘why isn’t this working?”
Trafficking Survivor*
Types of Human Trafficking in Canada
Human trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation