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According to Statistics Canada, evidence suggests that Nova Scotia, and Halifax in particular, are part of a corridor that is frequently used to "transport victims of human trafficking from Atlantic Canada to larger urban centres elsewhere in Canada." [2] Human trafficking has become a significant legal and political issue in the country, and ...
On April 27, 2012, the bill was sent to the Senate with unanimous support from MPs. [4] [6] That June, UNICEF Canada submitted a brief to the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs relating to Bill C-310. [7] On June 22, 2012, the bill passed third reading in the Senate, and then royal assent on June 28, 2012. [4 ...
The House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights (JUST) is a standing committee of the House of Commons of Canada.The Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, as it was then known, began their first session on February 17, 1966, under the Chair Alan John Patrick Cameron (Liberal Party of Canada). [1]
April 26, 2024 at 10:13 AM Andreea Alexandru/AP The trial of Andrew Tate , a self-proclaimed “misogynist” online influencer accused of human trafficking and rape, can go ahead, a Romanian ...
When Joy Smith proposed the implementation of an anti-human-trafficking national action plan to the House of Commons (pictured) in 2007, the motion was passed unanimously.. In 2004, the Interdepartmental Working Group on Trafficking in Persons (IWG-TIP), the working group responsible for coordinating the Government of Canada's efforts against human trafficking, was mandated to create a ...
The IWG-TIP promoted the idea that victims of human trafficking should be primarily served by community organizations. [7] In 2004, the IWG-TIP was mandated to create a national anti-human-trafficking plan , and both politicians and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) proceeded to remind the IWG-TIP of this unfulfilled mandate for the ...
Timea Nagy (born 1977) is a Canadian activist who has spoken on behalf of victims of human trafficking. She founded Walk With Me, a Toronto-based organization that aids survivors of trafficking. Nagy was featured in an anti-trafficking campaign by the Salvation Army in 2009. Her activism has drawn upon her own experience of forced prostitution ...
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (minimum sentence for offences involving trafficking of persons under the age of eighteen years) [1] (French: Loi modifiant le Code criminel (peine minimale pour les infractions de traite de personnes âgées de moins de dixhuit ans)) was a private member's bill that was enacted on June 29, 2010, by the 40th Canadian Parliament. [2]