# Pastoral Letter on Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation in Canada

- Link: https://nweparchy.ca/2021/12/pastoral-letter-on-human-trafficking-and-sexual-exploitation-in-canada/
- Published: 2021-12-08T12:41:46-08:00
- Author: Website

On 22 November 2021, the CCCB Commission for Justice and Peace released a Pastoral
Letter entitled _For Freedom Christ has Set us Free: Pastoral Letter on Human Trafficking
and Sexual Exploitation in Canada_. The letter draws attention to the inherently
exploitative and abusive nature of the purchase of sex and insists that in order
to protect the vulnerable, this practice must continue to be criminalized: “Treating
sex as ‘work’ masks the physical, psychological and sexual violence inflicted on
the prostituted person. Prostitution involves selling something that by its nature
cannot be bought or sold and is therefore inherently exploitative.”

[Link to the Pastoral Letter in PDF format.](https://www.cccb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CCCB-Human-Trafficking-Pastoral-Letter-2021.pdf)