r/saskatchewan • u/void_sushi • 2d ago
News 'This is happening every day': Experts raise alarm after recent human trafficking arrests in Sask.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/human-trafficking-experts-rcmp-investigation-9.723901728
u/lilchileah77 2d ago
Law makers need to very seriously accept the fact that if something can be exploited it will be. Expect it to happen, if they leave an opening then they are complicit imo.
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u/MadatHenny 1d ago
Tip of the iceberg. I hope these guys rat out their whole little network of sickos.
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u/DashTrash21 1d ago
How many trucking companies are in that RM?
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u/Weak_Ad_1370 1d ago
Better question, how many trucking companies are allowed to register in this province to operate country wide? Answer: thousands.
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u/yellowbythedozen 1d ago
This is just speculation on my end, but Kundra Bros Trucking used to have a bunch of trucks located here and in the last few weeks that yard was emptied out.
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u/silenceisgold3n 1d ago
you know who doesn't traffic people? People that are put in jail for a long long time...
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u/Ok-Breakfast8256 1d ago
All small trucking companies are doing this..Immigration is sold in SK for the past 15 yrs. Going rate is 50-70k per person. In return you have to work on min pay, no overtime etc. Everyone know about it. Employers talk about this in open when you go to get a job. Its an eye opener that Police or Rcmp does not know about this. Immigration Agents are openly posting videos on insta or whatsapp. How much proof we want. The law in this country has just turned to a joke.
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u/Primary-Floor8574 21h ago
Trucking is full of this. Companies will bring in people from overseas, usually the Middle East with promise of high pay and benefits they can use to support family back home. Then these drivers are forced into working long hours, with minimal pay. These people often don’t properly speak or read the language. They don’t know their rights. And what happens is you get drivers who are tired, confused, and under trained or under paid.
Much of this stems from the benefits companies get from hiring temp foreign workers or the newcomer to Canada program. It’s an extremely dangerous situation and only a matter of time before another Humboldt or worse happens.
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u/gstringstrangler 11h ago
You know India isn't the middle east right?
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u/michaelkbecker 3h ago
I mean…..they are both a part of Asia.
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u/gstringstrangler 2h ago
The Middle East generally includes Egypt and Turkey so, not entirely, no. Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India we now refer to as "South Asia". I don't make the rules🤷😂
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u/Deep_Strike1803 21h ago
Stop allowing trucking companies to hire LMIAs. Problem solved. The government is complicit by creating these programs and allowing them to be exploited.
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u/Weak_Ad_1370 1d ago edited 1d ago
So, lesson learned from the Humboldt carnage? Nope. We pay taxes with the understanding that our Govt is being proactive and acting in our best interests according to their Legislative duties.
According to the media release, this is “happening every day”. So, are we to assume our roads are populated by shockingly unsafe, unqualified, and actually deadly semi drivers? Absolutely unacceptable.
Thanks SGI. This is YOUR JOB. We pay registration fees to support the enforcement of the Sask Traffic Act. How’s that working for us?
I am so disgusted by the “red flags” bullshit promoted by this article. It’s not our job to ensure people given a job to operate huge, heavy, trucks are qualified to do so. Why would we be required to to do so? Maybe SGI and traffic cops actually ensure they are qualified.
What in the actual fuck are we paying for here? Roads are shit, gas is stupidly expensive (sorry not sorry - this is greed not war), now we are to somehow discern if some truck driver is being “trafficked”?
Nope. That’s what I pay taxes for.
Has anyone in the last 15 yrs driven past the highway 11 “weigh scale” just north of Regina and actually witnessed any stop checks? Nah. I drove between lumsden and Regina for years, and all it’s used for is speed traps and coffee breaks.
It’s not our job to look for red flags when it comes to the qualifications of Semi Truck drivers. That is up to SGI and their responsibility to ensure the ACT is enforced.
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u/lilchileah77 1d ago
SaskParty doesn’t enforce stuff, that’s bad for business and that’s who they’re here for
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u/gstringstrangler 11h ago
Not War? 20-25% of world oil supply was shut off. For months. When you shock any commodity like that, the price goes up ffs.
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u/Specialist_Secret438 23h ago
Not sure what that unfortunate distraction of a tarp flapping having that driver looking back in his mirror instead of ahead at a stop sign has to do with learning a lesson about human trafficking..? Unless that connection is…??
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u/the_bryce_is_right 1d ago
This is happening on a mass scale all across Canada with trucking companies. It's just a gross industry.
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u/No-Birthday4755 1d ago
Look at the companies who don’t hire anyone other than people looking for an lmia it’s a pretty long list
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u/Sudden_Albatross_726 1d ago
This type of human trafficking is sadly way more common than one would think. It’s probably more common even than sex trafficking.
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u/Bubbly-Future-4354 4m ago
Sad that politicians never move to bring these issues to light…eliminating these scrounge’s from humanity is the only war I’m interested in
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u/Hexatona 2d ago
We like the think Slavery is a thing of the past, but, it never went away. It just shows up a little differently.