True Patriot Love - Canada And The Global Slavery Index

00:00:00.000 hello and happy new year my fellow patriots i am brady wedham and over the next few weeks i'll be

00:00:09.520 taking a look at the reported stats of victims and incidents as it pertains to human trafficking

00:00:14.000 in canada from what i've gathered in my own research these numbers don't seem to add up

00:00:19.040 the statistics canada reports compared to the global slavery index are extremely different and

00:00:23.520 i really want to know why let's break down some of these reported numbers and see how much of a

00:00:28.720 disconnect is actually here so the provincial level case counts as of 2024 reported to you by

00:00:35.520 statistics canada these are the numbers of incidents that was reported by police in 2024

00:00:40.480 for the provinces ontario 374 nova scotia 48 which is the highest rate and substantial count relative to

00:00:49.040 the population prince edward island 5 new brunswick 17 saskatchewan 23. these figures are police reported

00:00:58.640 incidents which can include multiple victims or connected offenses with a single police file

00:01:03.760 that means hundreds of people could be labeled inside of one file that count does not represent

00:01:09.520 the full scope of trafficking in canada most of these cases never actually reached the police

00:01:15.440 the global slavery index produced by walker free and their partners estimates that tens of thousands 0.99

00:01:20.560 of people in canada are currently living in modern slavery which includes trafficking forced labor

00:01:26.480 debt bondage and similar exploitation far more the police reported cases they just don't actually

00:01:33.440 match this 608 compared to thousands one frequently cited figure from such an estimate is around 69 000

00:01:41.760 people in canada in modern slavery conditions that to me seems insane modern slavery is a broader

00:01:48.560 category it's more than just trafficking alone but trafficking does seem to be the major component

00:01:54.480 so why is the gap so large human trafficking is intrinsically hidden because victims are controlled

00:01:59.520 by traffickers they're isolated socially and economically they fear criminal justice involvement

00:02:05.200 and they don't want to be part of the justice system they may be moved frequently or kept invisible

00:02:09.920 they may be reluctant and unable to report to these authorities because of those things cited above

00:02:14.480 i'm going to segue for a second and there's a reason why i do not understand if this is just a seller

00:02:22.800 to buyer and buyer to seller relationship in the 70s 80s and 90s when vhs and beta tapes and home

00:02:29.680 entertainment was becoming a big thing you started seeing a massive rise of adult film stores in major

00:02:35.040 cities the blacked out windows the neon signs and then all kind of disappeared there's a few here and

00:02:42.080 there but most of it disappeared the internet we can probably blame that it's a little bit more

00:02:47.760 readily accessible to go on the internet and and partake in those kind of things so a lot of those

00:02:52.080 stores disappeared then the gray cannabis market just follow me for a second the gray cannabis market

00:02:57.760 popped up we knew it was going to be legalized in canada the medical the medical program was already

00:03:02.480 valid and going but we knew that these stores were going to come they were going to be federal and there

00:03:07.280 was a gray market for a few years where people open up their stores and those stores used to look

00:03:13.200 like those adult film stores windows painted out kind of in the back alley more or less you'd see an

00:03:19.680 abundance of them is in these major cities in downtown cores then that disappeared you know things like in

00:03:25.120 ontario the ocs took over and and and and across federally here in canada avia province kind of opened up

00:03:31.360 their own market so you've seen a lot less of these gray stores these gray market stores still exist

00:03:37.360 even still to this day but they're few and far in between those buildings that used to have the

00:03:44.000 adult they're not the same ones but we're we'll make a comparison here those buildings that used to

00:03:48.480 be adult film stores that ended up turning into cannabis stores are now a new thing massage parlors

00:03:54.160 massage parlors are on the rise here specifically in ontario there are 700 illicit massage parlors registered in

00:04:01.200 canada 200 plus are in ontario the mcdonald laurier institute has basically put that out and have

00:04:09.440 said it numerous times over numerous years that this is a thing that just keeps happening and nobody's

00:04:13.760 really stopping it 75 erotic massage listings in ontario alone that's the data set from rentek digital

00:04:20.000 so there's 75 that are technically registered numerous unlicensed parlors operate at any given

00:04:25.680 time in these cities like hamilton toronto london and are often not documented in public

00:04:30.800 databases so you're not going to find out 75 registered means that there's probably 150.

00:04:36.160 and hamilton officials reported to knowing of 8 to 10 unlicensed body rub parlors at any given time

00:04:42.640 acknowledging that more exist and they're just not publicly documented

00:04:46.640 so reports from toronto's municipal license data they show 410 licensed holistic centers with the city

00:04:54.400 and they're not going to be analyzing those and finding that 168 of them appear to be offering

00:04:58.560 unauthorized unauthorized services what does that mean we're going to dig into that over the next few

00:05:05.280 weeks but i think we all know what that means it's highlighting that many licensed wellness businesses

00:05:10.000 operate in a gray zone where they may be de facto illicit massage parlors is this an actual thing that's

00:05:17.520 happening right now are we seeing an increase of these massage parlors and holistic centers fronting

00:05:24.400 because this is a way to deal with these large numbers 69 000 if you listen to the global slavery index

00:05:32.800 69 000 human trafficked cases where are we putting them it sounds like the massage parlors might be 1.00

00:05:43.360 a place that they're ending up join us over the next couple weeks as i take time

00:05:49.680 to really break this down i'm going to bring in everything from people as part of the judicial

00:05:55.120 system to talk about this uh regional police and even people that partake in this business to pay

00:06:01.600 their bills i want to find out why these numbers are so disconnected we have 608 police reports in 2024

00:06:10.400 that's statistics candidate the global slavery index says it's more like 69 000.

00:06:15.920 a person am i wrong am i right if you have an opinion please put it in the comment section below

00:06:21.840 we're here to educate ourselves we're here to educate you we all want to learn together

00:06:25.680 we're here to educate ourselves we're here to educate ourselves i've been brady wedham we'll see you soon

True Patriot Love - January 20, 2026

Canada And The Global Slavery Index

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