Women are being trafficked, their bodies abused and sold every day in Justin Trudeau’s Canada. Does he even care?

A decade after the passage of Canada’s Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA) — a law that, in part, makes it illegal to purchase, but not sell, sex — a crowd of more than 150, including Alberta Lieutenant Governor Salma Lakhani, gathered in a hotel ballroom in Edmonton early November for a somber, but hopeful, celebration of the milestone. It is good legislation that recognizes sex buyers as predators and sellers as their prey. Unforgivably, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government — which took office one year after the law received royal assent — has since granted funding to pro-prostitution groups that undermine the spirit and intent of the law designed to protect women and communities. While it is still illegal to purchase sex, our current government appears sympathetic to the enormous pressure from Canadian lobby groups to change this.