Winnipeg: the sexual exploitation capital of Canada

Winnipeg has the most frightening prevalence of sexual exploitation of girls among several major Canadian cities, says a Vancouver advocate who is pressing governments to try harder to curb the problem.

Benjamin Perrin, who formerly advised Canada's federal immigration minister on the issue, yesterday painted a stark picture of the illegal trade of girls in this province and across the country -- many of them aboriginal -- at a Winnipeg forum on human trafficking.

'Horrible problem'

"There's a horrible problem with sexually exploited youth in the province of Manitoba," Perrin, an assistant law professor at the University of British Columbia, told the Winnipeg Sun on the first day of the two-day conference organized by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.

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When I saw this on the news last night my immediate thought was who are these guys exploiting these girls.

AMC Grand Chief Ron Evans said the conference is part of sending a public message that it's not "OK to prey on our people," in addition to finding answers.

It really took little pondering to figure it out. Anyone want to bet who is "preying on their people"?

I aint playing that betting game.

what I want to know if Perrin is so positive our situation is the worst, he must have direct information about some of the girls ( and to all the newsies out there, just because I girl is dressed nice and walking in crappy areas of town later at night does not mean she is a hooker )
So if he has such direct information, how come he never helped out each person he was in contact with?

Prostitution is already legal, lets regulate it better to protect the men and women involved in the trade instead of forcing it underground.

While I dont for a minute doubt that there will still be young people and people banned because of STDs or whatever, still plying their trade "under the table" so to speak, the numbers will be smaller and a much better support system would be in place to help them out.

Doesn't this all get back to 'parenting'? I bet it does.

no no no JTF, its never the parents fault I thought that was real clear by now.

lol...sorry...I keep forgetting.

thats okay you are old, we can forgive you.

I saw this on the news yesterday and had a look at the craigslist ads that were featured. There seem to be about five 30+ ladies that post an ad almost daily, and a few invitations to webcams. I was not able to find the hundreds of native girls that the news were reporting.

This seems to be an activity that is restricted to a population of insiders at specific locations in the city. I have been living and working downtown for more than three years and have not noticed anything suspicious. So whats the fuss all about?

Yeah right. Winnipeg is the *new* Bohemian Grove of the world.

I'm not buying it.

I don't believe this jerk can make a statement about Winnipeg being the "capital", and of course, Evans, who is the elected leader of the leaders makes it someone else's problem by deflecting the issue, but all said and done, there is an issue with children as young as 13 prostituting themselves.

Sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but they don't dress in mini skirts and fishnet stockings, they are probably wearing jeans, a hoodie and flip flops and they don't advertise on the internet. Just take a look around Selkirk and Parr, Jarvis, Sutherland and it will make you want to cry.

Many of you know that I work in the inner city and we have ties with an alternate junior high school program. I usually start work early in the morning (6:00 to 7:00am) and a couple of years back, one summer morning, I saw one of our junior high students hooking on the corner of Salter and Elgin. She wasn't much younger than my own daughter. It is an issue

eViL tRoLl wrote:I saw this on the news yesterday and had a look at the craigslist ads that were featured. There seem to be about five 30+ ladies that post an ad almost daily, and a few invitations to webcams. I was not able to find the hundreds of native girls that the news were reporting.

This seems to be an activity that is restricted to a population of insiders at specific locations in the city. I have been living and working downtown for more than three years and have not noticed anything suspicious. So whats the fuss all about?

You are not looking carefully enough Freemen is so right , they look like any other kid and for the most part act like it . When I was on the street unit with CFS we found 2 girls who serviced Lawyers in there offices , needless to say they got off of the charges but have since left the province , the lawyers that is .

No, they don't look like any other kid. Any other kid isn't on the streets at 6:00 am, smiling and waving at the passing cars occupied by lone males. Any other kid doesn't display the obvious jerky and wild movements symptomatic of a crack high.

Do you have an interpretation problem or what .

Maybe just a difference of opinion?

Pavolo wrote:Do you have an interpretation problem or what .

Now thats funny.

And in case you have not noticed they have been there for many a year , if not on the front street, the back lane. And they do look like any other kid till they are working for your benefit which I thought you would get the meaning of when stated .

Nope, those young girls that are hooking do not look like any other kid. You're wrong again.

...reminds me of Jodie Foster in the movie TAXI...just a regular looking kid...

My point exactly.

I watched TAXI DRIVER the other night......had forgotten how ironic it was. NYC sure don't look like that anymore.

Like any other claim that is made, do we have any stats to back up the claim that Winnipeg is the sexual exploitation Capital of Canada?

Precisely the point. SOme "expert" makes some lame ass claim and its supposed to be gospel. Is it an issue, certainly. Are we the "capital", who the hell knows. Its not like counting Slurpees.

This is just an over exaggeration in order for someone to get more public money so they can piss it away on everything except addressing the issue.

wasn;t his expert opinion based on surfing Craiglist?

ahh cragslist and apparently he did a ride along with City police last year... apparently Canada is up to 8 cities now!



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Perrin got a close look at the local extent of the problem while riding with city police in troubled districts last fall as part of a study of eight Canadian cities.
"Winnipeg, by far, had the highest prevalence of overt acts of kids being on sale on your streets. It was really alarming," he said at a Pembina Highway hotel where the forum was held. "


Was watching an newsie thing on humna trafficking last night. It was about europe and how bad it is there. 1 guy sent his wife to Turkey with a friend so that he could protect her whilst she shopped for her parents store. The "friend" called the husband and said. I sold your wife for $1000.

Another woman helped girls from Ukrain get jobs in other european countries and such, only when they arrived the women were sold into slavery.