A young white woman in black underwear dances seductively in a strip club as patrons wearing blue blindfolds sit at a table near the pole she is dancing around.
Change scene, a Southeast-Asian-looking woman pours drinks for white party goers who also don blue blindfolds.
Change scene, a young man, Chinese or Japanese perhaps, washes dishes as patrons enjoy their meals blindfolded.
Change scene, a white man wearing the same blue blindfold, walks into a 24-hour massage parlour.
As the video rolls, a narrator tells us: “While we enjoy, we forget who is getting hurt. We see who we want and close our eyes to the rest. There are people who are forced to provide labour or services. They are victims of human trafficking.
“Human trafficking doesn’t just happen in faraway places to people we don’t know. It’s in our neighbourhoods, right in our own backyards. It is happening here.”
The video is part of a new Crime Stoppers campaign called Blue Blindfold announced by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews on Tuesday. Blue Blindfold is one of two national awareness campaigns addressing the growing problem of human trafficking. The goal is to raise public awareness about the prevalence of human trafficking in Canada and help Canadians identify and report suspicious cases.
Human trafficking is a phenomenon that happens within Canada and around the world. Organized crime groups are widely believed to be among the most prolific traffickers of women, men, and children who are exploited against their will for sex, labour, and other purposes.
“Here in Canada, as you will come to realize, we do have human trafficking occurring in large numbers all across the country. A problem we all face right now is a general lack of knowledge about the issue of human trafficking and its presence in our communities. We hope to be able to change that,” says a Crime Stoppers statement about the new program.
Change scene, a Southeast-Asian-looking woman pours drinks for white party goers who also don blue blindfolds.
Change scene, a young man, Chinese or Japanese perhaps, washes dishes as patrons enjoy their meals blindfolded.
Change scene, a white man wearing the same blue blindfold, walks into a 24-hour massage parlour.
As the video rolls, a narrator tells us: “While we enjoy, we forget who is getting hurt. We see who we want and close our eyes to the rest. There are people who are forced to provide labour or services. They are victims of human trafficking.
“Human trafficking doesn’t just happen in faraway places to people we don’t know. It’s in our neighbourhoods, right in our own backyards. It is happening here.”
The video is part of a new Crime Stoppers campaign called Blue Blindfold announced by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews on Tuesday. Blue Blindfold is one of two national awareness campaigns addressing the growing problem of human trafficking. The goal is to raise public awareness about the prevalence of human trafficking in Canada and help Canadians identify and report suspicious cases.
Human trafficking is a phenomenon that happens within Canada and around the world. Organized crime groups are widely believed to be among the most prolific traffickers of women, men, and children who are exploited against their will for sex, labour, and other purposes.
“Here in Canada, as you will come to realize, we do have human trafficking occurring in large numbers all across the country. A problem we all face right now is a general lack of knowledge about the issue of human trafficking and its presence in our communities. We hope to be able to change that,” says a Crime Stoppers statement about the new program.
