The multilingual, accessible hotline, an initiative of the Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking, launched at 7 a.m. In a 2018 study, which looked at police-reported incidents up to 2016, Statistics Canada found that 95 per cent of human trafficking victims were women. (Associated Producers Ltd./Canadian Press)Statistics Canada, which has tracked instances of police-reported human trafficking, said the practice has been steadily on the rise since 2010. In a 2018 study, which looked at police-reported incidents up to 2016, StatCan found that 95 per cent of human trafficking victims were women. The RCMP's human trafficking co-ordination centre has reported that between 2005 and 2018, the Mounties identified 531 cases where human trafficking charges were laid.

Source: CBC News May 29, 2019 13:41 UTC