Organized crime in Canada has gone beyond the traditional trade in drugs and into the lucrative trafficking of humans, targeting foreign and local woman and youths, an RCMP director said at McGill’s law school yesterday.
“Just because a woman has access to her passport and documents doesn’t mean she has freedom of movement,” Michel Aubin said during a panel discussion on human trafficking – the recruitment of people for the purpose of exploitation.
Women are often forced into prostitution, sometimes hired as domestics or here as foreign workers.
Aubin said law enforcement agencies must not assume a sex worker is simply that – she may have been promised a job as waitress or dancer, but then forced to perform sex acts.
“We have to change the mindset,” he said. “If we think they’re just prostitutes, God, we have a problem.”

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