The Slave Trade is Back: Confronting Human Trafficking in Canada and Beyond
Benjamin Perrin, Past Liu Faculty Affiliate, UBC
June 22, 2010
Adam Smith, William Wilberforce, and Abraham Lincoln are names synonymous with the defense of individual liberty. Together their lives overlapped to form a continuous 142-year period that ended just two years before confederation in Canada. These men recognized that free markets and free societies could only exist where all people are free. This hard-earned victory, however, is being systematically attacked in Canada and, indeed, around the world, with a resurgence in the last two decades of human trafficking—a modern-day form of slavery. [To continue reading, please click here.]
Source: Benjamin Perrin, “The Slave Trade is Back: Confronting Human Trafficking in Canada and Beyond” (2010) 4:2C2C: Canada’s Journal of Ideas.
