You can't buy my body -- Toronto's Special Victim's Project

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Michelle, an astute lawyer and writer based out of Toronto, gives a good synopsis of Toronto's latest decision to implement a taskforce to deal with sex trafficking -- both locally and internationally.

The fact is the Toronto task force is but a drop in the bucket. When a person travels the world and begins to see how persistent and pervasive human trafficking is, one realizes that it takes more than a series of laws and a handful of task forces.

The reality is the major victims in human trafficking are women and many countries around the world (and some would argue in Canada as well) still regard women as commodities. Given that the sex trade is the commodification of the body, and given that women are chattel within cultural standards one can only assume that it will take a lot to shift this trend. More than a meagre task force.

Yet, saying all this, a task force (however late in the game) is the necessary step forward. As was the British Columbia court case that charged a man for solicitation and illegal conduct with a minor in a foreign country (my terms may be legally garbled, but you get the idea). Both send signals: we, in Canada, do NOT agree with the commodification of women (or children). It's an important step, however small.