Addressing the growing problem of human trafficking requires resources, and concern

The numbing reality of human trafficking in Canada places victims inside a situation beyond their control. More than 2,400 years ago, Plato described a similar condition in his allegory of the cave.

People are shackled inside a dark space. They are slaves. Shadows cast by others apathetic to their enslavement, create the only reality the entrapped will ever know, projected onto a wall in front of them. The dark shapes become the reality of who they think they are.

In many ways, young women today, particularly Indigenous women — who account for only 4 percent of the Canadian female population, but more than 50 percent of sex trafficking victims — are entrapped by a society that manipulates them. Many become easy prey for a horrific crime.

A who’s who of municipal and provincial leaders are in Ottawa this week to schmooze, plan and discuss some of the most pressing concerns facing municipalities today.

In this first of a three part series, The Pointer looks at three reasons why the issue of human trafficking should be among them.

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Published on Aug. 19, 2019 in The Pointer - Brampton