*Public Administration | Program Guide: Human Trafficking

The primary law that addresses human trafficking.

Trafficking in human beings” shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. A simplified version is that trafficking is the transport of persons, by means of coercion, deception, or consent for the purpose of exploitation, such as forced or consensual labor or prostitution."