Youth and Child Sex Trafficking in Canada

Whereas the sexual exploitation and trafficking of youth, children and the vulnerable is increasing in Canada as reported by Statistics Canada, Federal Public Safety Ministry, Canadian Centre to End Trafficking and the Trafficking in Persons Report 2020 USA State Department; And whereas the trafficking profile in Canada disproportionately involves women and children from Indigenous communities, migrants and new immigrants, LGBTI persons, persons with disability, youth, children and the vulnerable: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM call on the RCMP, city police forces and local governments to work collaboratively in order to implement the recommendations found in the Federal National Action Plan under Federal Public Safety, that there be Provincial Awareness Campaigns in place to augment the work of the National Centre to End Human Trafficking, and that Inter-agency Task Forces as exist to combat drug and gang violence be put in place.