Canada’s pitiful track record in combating human trafficking

Canada’s pitiful track record in combating human trafficking: "man far from home has no neighbours —so said the Japanese to rationalize the brutality of their soldiers in occupied lands before and during the Second World War, including the rape of women, the massacre of civilians and the beheading of prisoners.

Does this explanation also account for the behaviour of Canadian men who engage in sex-tourism abroad — in particular, the predators and pedophiles who prey on indentured women and children in foreign lands? Disturbingly, this is the conclusion I arrived at after reading Invisible Chains: Canada’s Underground World of Human Trafficking by Benjamin Perrin, an exposé of Canada’s pitiful track record in combating sexual trafficking both at home and abroad.

Perrin is an assistant law professor at the University of British Columbia and the founder and executive director of The Future Group, an NGO he created in 2000 to combat human trafficking. A modern day William Wilberforce — the British abolitionist and activist — Perrin was named a “hero acting to end modern-day slavery” by Hillary Clinton and the U.S. State Department in 2009. He is the first Canadian to receive this honour."

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