Five cities, including London, driving human trafficking in Canada

Statistics Canada singled out five cities for contributing 45 per cent of all human trafficking cases: Toronto (20 per cent), Ottawa (nine per cent), Halifax (six per cent), Montreal (six per cent) and London (four per cent).

Those five cities are located on two of the top human trafficking corridors in the country: Highway 401 and the Trans-Canada Highway, said Julia Drydyk, executive director of the Centre to End Human Trafficking.

“We know that these corridors are being systematically used by traffickers for a few reasons,” Drydyk said. “One is to isolate the victims and keep them dependent on their trafficker, to keep them removed from their family, friends and support networks. It’s also to avoid law enforcement detection and to capitalize on those various commercial sex industry markets in those major urban centres.” Link to full story here.