Door Participants: Ontario and Trafficking

door participants: The Girl Next Door Participants left the meeting almost unanimous, saying an official task force headed by the provincial government is key to tackling the problem in Ontario, where it is estimated that two thirds of all human trafficking in Canada occurs, according to CBC. Ninety per cent of victims are Canadian born, dispelling illusions of female immigrants forced into the sex trade, and the Highway 401 corridor across Southern Ontario is highlighted as an accessible and frequent route for traffickers. The meeting discussed human trafficking with local stakeholders and frontline workers, how to combat the issue in Southern Ontario, and addressed Bill 158. Waterloo Region police attended a roundtable to discuss a provincial human trafficking taskforce for Ontario. "It a very transient crime. Eugene Fenton, with the intelligence branch of the Waterloo Regional Police Service. "So we really think there needs to be a provincial approach and have a provincial task force that can gather all that intelligence, follow the crime, so to speak." In late July, less than two weeks ahead of the roundtable, Waterloo regional police arrested and charged four adults for allegedly taking a 14-year-old girl to two Kitchener hotels, and selling her sexual services online. So the traffickers will move their victims from a hotel in Kitchener to a hotel in London to a hotel in Kingston, so on and so forth," said Staff Sgt. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.