Experts, Parliamentarians urge more action on human trafficking in Canada

Quebec Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne says the Liberal government’s recent 2021 platform promise to eliminate forced labour from supply chains was the 'start of a process.'

Former Conservative MP Joy Smith, left, has dedicated a great deal of her life to fighting human trafficking, particularly in the sex trade. Meanwhile, Quebec ISG Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne's been tackling the issue of forced labour, another aspect of the trafficking umbrella. Photographs courtesy of the Joy Smith Foundation and Julie Miville-Dechêne's office

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BY ALICE CHEN

November 3, 2021

Advocates and Parliamentarians say they want to see more done to address and raise awareness of sex and labour trafficking in Canada, with both under addressed and little understood as problems domestically. On the forced labour side of the equation, ISG Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne (Inkerman, Qu...

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