Human Trafficking In Canada

Organized crime operations are prevalent in Canadian society and satisfy a host of demands such as drugs, sex, and illegal items only found in the blackmarket. This is especially true of smuggling operations, but specifically, human smuggling operations meet the demand of a whole different sort: labour. Illegal migrants leave countries for the promise of a new life with job prospects that will provide a stable life for individuals. When smuggled individuals arrive in their new countries, they then provide cheap labour that would otherwise be unfilled. For these reasons, human smuggling operations continue to thrive in Canadian society. When there is a demand, society finds a way to meet it. Thus, like all organized crime operations, human …show more content…
In Canada, human smuggling rings successfully smuggle hundreds of citizens into the country every year. Specifically, in 2011, Taiwanese authorities, with the help of Canadian and Australian officials, have dismantled a large human smuggling ring that operated between Asia, Australia, and North America, The Globe and Mail reports (2012). This ring of snakeheads (a Chinese criminal who is responsible for illegal emigration of Chinese individuals) was responsible for smuggling over 100 illegal migrants from the Fujian province in southern China. The illegal migrants were flown from Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport (due to the fact that people with Taiwanese passports do not need a visa to enter Canada) into Canada or Australia, where they were forced to pay their debts, enabling the ring to make over a three million dollar profit. The snakehead leader was Feng Sheng-hsiung, a 50 year old man who was arrested in 2005, but released on parole in 2010 (when he was diagnosed with cancer) just to start in the smuggling business once again. Using this case is beneficial because it adequately demonstrates the many aforementioned reasons as to why human smuggling rings continue to operate even with the vast threats such businesses regular

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