Media Releases

“Human Trafficking: Canada is Not Immune” is a free online training program for Canadian front line service providers on how to recognize, protect and assist a person who may have been trafficked. [Read More]

The February 17 announcement by the Ontario government to launch a new multi-pronged approach to fight human trafficking will mean better resources for police to disrupt and prosecute traffickers and greater support for victim services. [Read More]

Benjamin Perrin, a law professor at the University of British Columbia and author of Invisible Chains: Canada’s Underground World of Human Trafficking, eight leading Canadian organizations committed to the issue, five provincial governments and almost 10,000 members of the public have called on Craigslist to immediately shut down its erotic/adult services section in Canada as recently done in the U.S. They are joined today by the federal government. Minister of Justice and Attorney General Rob Nicholson announced today he has written to the Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster demanding the website shut down its erotic services ads in Canada, just as done in the U.S. in September 2010. [Read More]

On October 28, 2010, Member of Parliament Joy Smith and UBC Law Professor Benjamin Perrin are calling for the development of a comprehensive national action plan to combat human trafficking in Canada. Recently, evidence provided by Professor Perrin’s book Invisible Chains and a national threat assessment released by the RCMP in September 2010 called Project SECLUSION have pointed to an extensive and highly profitable system of human trafficking networks across Canada. Men, women, and youth face forms of modern day slavery in Canada including sex trafficking and forced labour. [Read More]

On Wednesday, October 27 at 10:30 a.m., Joy Smith, Member of Parliament for Kildonan-St. Paul, and UBC Law Professor Benjamin Perrin will hold a news conference to call for a national action plan to combat human trafficking. MP Joy Smith and Professor Perrin will be joined by Canadian Police Association President Charles Momy, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Ron Evans, Former Ombudsman for Victims of Crime Steve Sullivan, and survivor of human trafficking Timea Nagy. [Read More]