Criminal Code of Canada
Section 279.01 du Code criminel du Canada - version française
Trafficking in persons
279.01 (1) Every person who recruits, transports, transfers, receives, holds, conceals or harbours a person, or exercises control, direction or influence over the movements of a person, for the purpose of exploiting them or facilitating their exploitation is guilty of an indictable offence and liable
(a) to imprisonment for life if they kidnap, commit an aggravated assault or aggravated sexual assault against, or cause death to, the victim during the commission of the offence; or
(b) to imprisonment for a term of not more than fourteen years in any other case.
Consent
(2) No consent to the activity that forms the subject-matter of a charge under subsection (1) is valid.
Sections 279.01; 279.011; 279.02; 279.03 and 279.04, further grant attention to the issue of consent, trafficking of a person under the age of eighteen, material benefits, withholding or destroying documents and exploitation.
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Trafficking in persons
279.01 (1) Every person who recruits, transports, transfers, receives, holds, conceals or harbours a person, or exercises control, direction or influence over the movements of a person, for the purpose of exploiting them or facilitating their exploitation is guilty of an indictable offence and liable
(a) to imprisonment for life if they kidnap, commit an aggravated assault or aggravated sexual assault against, or cause death to, the victim during the commission of the offence; or
(b) to imprisonment for a term of not more than fourteen years in any other case.
Consent
(2) No consent to the activity that forms the subject-matter of a charge under subsection (1) is valid.
- 2005, c. 43, s. 3.
Sections 279.01; 279.011; 279.02; 279.03 and 279.04, further grant attention to the issue of consent, trafficking of a person under the age of eighteen, material benefits, withholding or destroying documents and exploitation.
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