Canada a primary target for human trafficking, says expert – Catholic Register

Human trafficking has become a billion-dollar industry that is projected to overtake arms sales as the most lucrative illegal business in the world, said international expert Sr. Imelda Poole.

“At the moment it is second but it is rapidly overtaking guns and arms and it has already overtaken drugs,” said Poole. “Many drug traffickers are now human traffickers because they are getting more money and it is more clandestine — they are not caught as much.”

Poole, a British member of the Loretto Sisters, is president of an organization called Religious in Europe Networking Against Trafficking and Exploitation (RENATE).  She has worked 11 years in Albania and currently heads up Mary Ward Loretto, a non-profit organization which deals with human trafficking prevention and advocacy.

Speaking May 18 at the Mary Ward Centre in Toronto, Poole said Canada has become a primary destination for victims of human trafficking in spite of various initiatives to combat the illegal trade.

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