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Human traffickers have set up shop in Canada
by Scott Gilbreath ~ December 26th, 2008
This year saw three convictions for human trafficking in Canada—the first since a human-trafficking statute was added to the Criminal Code in 2005. Contrary to expectations, the perpetrators and victims were all Canadian citizens.
A different picture emerged of a flesh trade often thought of as foreign nationals tricked across borders. It became apparent that Canadian women and girls were being victimized by Canadian men. The first two human trafficking convictions — one in May, another in November, both from the Peel Regional Police vice unit — involved domestic trafficking victims who were forced to prostitute and hand over all their earnings to pimps. The “rules” identified by police — always checking in with their pimps, meeting daily quotas, the list goes on — were strikingly similar across the board, when comparing the cases to the other nine human trafficking charges Peel has before the courts.
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“In 2008, Canada was awakened to the fact that human traffickers had set up shop in our country,” said Benjamin Perrin, a leading human trafficking expert at the University of B.C. “What is surprising to most people is the victims and offenders in the first criminal cases were Canadians.”
And that’s probably just the tip of the iceberg.
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