• Connect to CKNW
Related Links

The province is taking action against human trafficking
METRO VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
CKNW News Staff | Email news tips to nwnews@cknw.com
3/15/2013

The BC Government is rolling out an action plan  to combat human trafficking whcih includes training for health care workers to identify workers of human trafficking.

Justice Minister Shirley Bond says human traffickers use a  variety of acts to abuse their victims.

"It can involve forcing someone to perform acts like exotic dancing, or prostitution -- forcing someone to work in illegal drug labs.  Forcing someone to work on a constructino site, in a  restaurant, in a factor or on a farm."

It's estimated that anywhere from 900,000 to 4,000,000 people world wide are trafficked each year and the overwhelming majority are trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation.


 «  Return to previous page
 »  Send to a friend
Subscribe to channel

Leave a comment:

showing all comments · Subscribe to comments
Comment
  • 10
  1. MichaelD_10 posted on 03/15/2013 07:25 PM
    I think the CKNW News staff have hit a new low with the grammer and spelling this story.
    They say. "We don't always proof read."
    I'm at three

    trafficking whcih includes
    work on a constructino site
    in a restaurant, in a factor or on a farm."

    I mean I'm no better, but I don't do this for a living.
    Just saying.
    You guys need to lose your Microsoft internet explorer and get Fire Fox it comes with a spell checker.
    1. Ken280 posted on 03/15/2013 08:33 PM
      @MichaelD_10 Is this all you really have to do it look for others spelling mistakes.Does this make you feel really powerful to point at others faults.You must smoke that crap you defend, then go on a spelling checker hunt! Only from a union reject and one of the bullies we are trying to stop,hope you do not have kids.If you do I would love to do an integrity check and see how they punch out anyone who finds a spelling mistake!
  2. insite posted on 03/17/2013 11:21 AM
    Does part of Minister Shirley Bond's strategy to prevent workers from being forced to illegally work on a construction site include supporting CSBA reality TV shows?

    Such shows expose how foreigners are being exploited to work under sub-standard working conditions as well as lower pay.

    At the same time. The government is actively supporting the film industry through its tax credits which subsidized the reality show' production.

    Well, maybe so but we should be targeting the companies and businesses who are employing the foreign workers under such deplorable conditions. They are the ones who exploit desperate foreigners. The exploited are only trying to improve their economic status. By filming them, we are causing them more harm.
  3. joes_2868 posted on 03/17/2013 12:38 PM
    Ken280: The readers consultant, a man with a briefcase 50 miles away from home.
    My or my, Kenny not getting his own ways these days?
    1. SlimP_9860 posted on 03/17/2013 12:45 PM
      @joes_2868 What does your personal vendetta have to do with the story?
showing all comments