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Completed cases related to human trafficking in adult criminal courts in Canada, 2008/2009 to 2017/2018

New human trafficking legislation was introduced in Canada in 2005/2006. However, the first court case involving a human trafficking offence under this new legislation was completed in Canada in 2008/2009. Includes Criminal Code charges and cases only. Does not include human trafficking offences under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. A case is one or more charges against an accused person or company that were processed by the courts at the same time and received a final decision. Data exclude information from superior courts in Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well as municipal courts in Quebec due to the unavailability of data.

Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey (3312).