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Ottawa pushes controversial trafficking bill

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 @ 2:32 PM | By Cristin Schmitz

The federal government is moving to proclaim an inert Conservative-era human trafficking law containing a rebuttable evidentiary presumption of guilt that the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) contends is “likely unconstitutional” and...

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