Human Trafficking in Canada

On 23rd October 2013, CTV News shared four Romanian women found to be victims of human trafficking in Montreal. These women were deceived by Canada in hopes of finding a better future, but forced to prostitute (2013). Trafficking is a problem that Canadians hardly recognize. Most people do not know the problem or do not understand what they are doing in their backyard. Canadians face the seriousness of trafficking in other countries, but Canadian citizens are not aware that Canada is not only a passing point but also a destination country in the United States.

Trafficking in Canada has become an important legal and political issue and Canadian legislators are criticized for not being able to solve the problem in a more systematic way. The Canadian Public Security Bureau has defined human trafficking as "directing or influencing solicitation, transportation, accommodation and / or exercise of human behavior to exploit people, usually through sexual or forced labor" It is. Slavery "

Trafficking for sexual purposes is called contemporary slavery. In the US State Department's 2008 trafficking report on trafficking, Canada is listed as a Tier 1 country. In other words, Canada is from the country of men, women, children, transit, the destination country (SIWSAG, 2009). Although it is not a preferred destination for traffickers, it is conservatively presumed that about 800 people are trafficked in Canada each year. - Grace Guirl World History 10 Mr. Bey 10/26/2014 Trafficking including sexual work and forced labor is a current issue due to poverty and lack of prior awareness of the government, but recent government behavior By this serious situation it slowly improved and gained recognition of the public. Background: Brazil is one of the world's largest population trafficking centers.

to sell. Although there is no reliable statistics on the degree of trafficking in Canada, ILO stated in the international trafficking evaluation that Canada should pay special attention to foreign workers' working conditions in family services and agriculture It is. Furthermore, if trafficking in Canada is similar to the United States in recent years it is the largest and oldest country in the United States in recent years, and the trafficking trafficking program is more victims of drug trafficking than victims of sex trade 156. Strengthening the supervision of the labor department hiring immigrants and foreign workers may be an effective way to reduce trafficking and exploitation in the labor force.