What we think we know about human trafficking in Canada

By The Big Story

It’s one of those crimes with an image — and that image is mostly fictional. The vast majority of victims who end up trafficked in Canada are not abducted by strangers and chained to beds as Hollywood depicts. They are victims of intimate partner violence, often pushed into the industry by a person they know. And it doesn’t happen in dark warehouses, but in well-lit chain hotels, like one’s you’ve stayed at on a business trip.

Today we’ll meet the women fighting to help trafficking victims, learn where and how this crime really happens, and why police charge so few people in these cases. And you’ll learn how to recognize a potential trafficking situation when it’s right in front of you.

GUEST: Cristina Howorun, CityNews, lead reporter on VeraCity: Fighting Traffick documentary

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