Slavery is alive and thriving in the 21st century. While human trafficking is indeed a global issue, Canadian citizens are often trafficked within their own country, enslaved, bought and sold from province to province. Every situation is different; often victims are lured into a horrific exploitive setting not by strangers but by someone they know, a relative, a neighbor, or even a friend. Human trafficking is not an issue that gets a lot of attention in Canada, simply because people think it’s an international issue with international victims, but it happens more often than people think. As one MP makes noise on parliament hill, it is happening to Canadian women. Hundreds of thousands of children, young men and women have vanished from their everyday lives -forced by violence into a hellish existence of brutality and prostitution. They’re a profitable commodity in the multi-billion-dollar industry of modern slavery. The underworld calls them human trafficking and it is all happening in our country. There are 27 million victims world-wide and the numbers are on the rise. Non-government officials estimate 12 to 15 thousand people are trafficked in Canada each year. Our global news investigation leads us to the troubled survivors who were trafficked right here in Toronto. A world-wide problem which Canada is very much a part of is being kept too quiet. Click here to watch the video For more information on the problem as it exists in Canada or to be put in touch with women’s shelters, police, government officials and victims:
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