An Act respecting the National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking

Bill S-235 was a Senate Private Member's Bill respecting the federal National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking. Canada has had a National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking since 2019 (the Trudeau government's 2019-2024 strategy at $75 million over five years; renewed for 2024-2029 at expanded funding). Public Safety Canada's RCMP-led Human Trafficking National Coordination Centre receives approximately 1,400 trafficking-related occurrence reports annually per the 2023 RCMP Public Report. The bill sought to codify the strategy in statute with binding annual reporting and statutory federal-provincial-territorial coordination on victim-support frameworks. The Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking (24/7 hotline) endorsed the bill.