Ending Human Trafficking

There was a Toronto Licensing and Standards Committee on May 21st. The impression left with the audience was that the stakeholders would continue to work together towards their shared objective. A new development throws fuel onto the fire.

The Centre To End Human Trafficking seems to be pursuing a route where the politicians and licensed businesses could be charged criminally.

Today we discovered the following link: Municipal Law Research Project
Inside is the following:
The Centre has begun work on a long-term law reform project aimed at addressing human trafficking in the City licensed body rub parlours and the holistic centres(spas) operating as illicitly body rub parlous. The City of Toronto maintains a licensing process for body rub parlours and other businesses where intimate massage is performed. The thrust of the legal research in this field would involve examining the City’s duty to conduct due diligence in the holistic centre and professional holistic association licensing process to prevent, detect, and prosecute human trafficking.
The CCTEHT Human Trafficking & Municipal Law Legal Research Project (“the Project”) will provide two students the opportunity to contribute to a legal research project focusing on one or more of the following topics:
>liability of municipalities that fail to adequately protect vulnerable individuals being issued licenses for work in both licensed and unlicensed body rub parlours;
>history of policy development in the body rub parlour licensing process, especially in regard to human trafficking;
>incidence and reporting of human trafficking in body rub parlours;
>due diligence requirements of by-law enforcement and municipal officials;
>environmental scan of best practises and possible tools in Canada or the U.S. jurisdictions that seeks to end trafficking operations in illicit massage businesses.
Students will conduct legal research under supervision of municipal lawyers at Dentons Canada LLP. Dentons Pro Bono Work

It is anticipted that this CCTEHT Human Trafficking & Municipal Law Legal Research Project will provide the same answer all other research has provided. Toronto licenses its massage businesses and conducts random inspections. This forces traffickers out of the city into the less-regulated juristictions.



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