Ottawa urged to restore funding to groups that help exploited women, girls GlobePolitics
Opposition MPs sent a letter Wednesday to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Minister of Women and Gender Equality Maryam Monsef, seen here at the House of Commons on May 20, 2020, and Public Safety Minister Bill Blair denouncing the decision.Opposition parties are criticizing the Liberal government for allowing funding for organizations that help women and girls who are sex trafficked and exploited to lapse, urging the government to reverse its decision.
She said members of Parliament from each opposition party sent a letter Wednesday to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Minister of Women and Gender Equality Maryam Monsef and Public Safety Minister Bill Blair denouncing the decision. Mary-Liz Power, a spokeswoman for Mr. Blair and Marie-Pier Baril, a spokeswoman for Ms. Monsef, issued a joint statement touting the government’s response to human trafficking, but did not comment directly on the lapsed funding.
Ms. Walker said previously in an interview that her organization will have to close its federally funded anti-sex trafficking program, which operated for five years and served more than 3,000 trafficked, prostituted, sexually exploited and at-risk women and girls.
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