Premier Doug Ford says new legislation to combat human trafficking shows Ontario’s continued leadership in responding to what he calls a “terrible” crime.
The proposed changes would increase penalties for traffickers who interfere with a child in care of a Children’s Aid Society.
myFM spoke with Associate Minister of Children and Women’s Issues, Jill Dunlop.
Dunlop says stats show the average age of recruitment into sex trafficking is approximately 13-years-old.
She says Ontario has become a hub for human trafficking — accounting for about 55% of all police-reported incidents across the country in 2019.
