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Alberta
Pro-life activist describes how child traffickers take advantage of Alberta’s abortion lax laws
From LifeSiteNews
A recent article recounted how a 13-year-old girl was ‘sold’ to sex traffickers, found to be pregnant by her captors, and forced to take chemical abortion pills.
Richard Dur, a political consultant who serves as the executive director of Prolife Alberta, shared grisly details of how human traffickers are taking advantage of the province’s lax abortion laws to get away with essentially whatever they want when it comes to innocent life.
In a recent opinion piece for Juno News, Dur wrote about the shocking tale of a 13-year-old girl who was “sold” to sex traffickers. She was forced to come to western Canada from the Montreal area, found to be pregnant by her captors, and was then forced to take chemical abortion pills.
Dur noted that the girl’s traffickers knew that Alberta, notably the Red Deer area, was “good business,” as the “profits were higher.”
After the girl missed her period, the trafficker’s minder found out, as his job was to “watch the girls, track the bleeding, report anything that might interrupt business.”
The men had in place a “quiet solution” for such situations, that being abortion pills, which are widely available in Alberta without a prescription or doctor visits.
“No doctor’s visit. No age check — not that it would have mattered. Just two pills, mailed discreetly to the door of a short-term rental in southeast Calgary. One to stop the pregnancy. One to flush it out. Reproductive freedom — streamlined for traffickers,” Dur wrote.
After the girl was forced to take the pills, she bled all night by herself. She was forced back to “work” the next day.
Dur noted that this girl’s story is not “fiction” or “hypothetical” but is the “hidden reality behind Project Endgame — Alberta’s largest human trafficking bust.”
Police in the province have noted that traffickers have operated this way for over a decade, with victims being “coerced, transported, and exploited.”
However, what is left out of the picture by officials is that the reason the traffickers can get away with what they do is because of the province’s “permissive, on-demand abortion regime.”
In Alberta, Mifegymiso, which became available to Canadians in 2017, is now legal and free, allowing many women to kill their unborn babies at home without any medical supervision, often resulting in severe injuries to the mother in addition to the trauma of seeing their murdered baby. No ID, pregnancy test or medical exam is required.
Dur noted that another woman, “an older girl, or the trafficker’s assistant,” can obtain the drugs easily for anyone.
“No proof of pregnancy required. All it takes is a phone call and a mailing address. Or the trafficker standing over her, watching, listening. He never needs to leave the room. He never needs to lose control,” he wrote.
Canada’s “free” contraceptive law was passed last year and came about as a result of Bill C-64. The law was introduced by the former government of Justin Trudeau.
Drugs for at-home chemical abortions are typically done in the form of drugs like Mifegymiso. In January, Campaign Life Coalition reported that a 19-year-old Canadian girl died after taking Mifegymiso.
Free contraception is not ‘liberation’ but allows for ‘a license for exploitation,’ says Dur
Dur recounted that the story of the young women forced into the underground sex trade shows how the current system in Alberta and Canada has resulted in girls being enslaved at shocking rates.
“When a 13-year-old girl can be trafficked, abused, and silenced with a phone call and two pills, we must ask: who, exactly, is this system protecting? But she is not the exception,” he wrote.
“She is the victim of a system functioning exactly as it’s been designed to — with no guardrails. That’s not liberation. That’s a license for exploitation.”
Dur observed that for all the Alberta government says it does to combat trafficking, “there’s a glaring loophole in its strategy — one traffickers depend on.”
“Its name? On-demand abortion access,” he noted.
While the United Conservative Government (UCP) has promised to do more to combat traffickers, with Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis saying “Human trafficking is a serious and often hidden crime that devastates lives and communities,” the reality is that it is hidden due in part to abortion pills.
“A trafficker can control a young girl’s body, her movements, and even the consequences of his crimes — because Alberta allows it. If we are serious about protecting the exploited, we must be serious about what’s enabling their continued exploitation,” Dur wrote.
Dur noted that if traffickers can cross borders “without inspection, why wouldn’t they exploit abortion access that’s just as unguarded?”
According to Ellis “We’re not just trying to make headlines — we’re trying to change lives.”
Dur said that the “change” should start today with changing the policy regarding abortion pills taken at home.
“Change the policy that lets predators cover their crimes with a phone call and a mailing address. Close the loophole that puts abortion — chemical or surgical — in the hands of men exploiting vulnerable girls, with no age restriction, no parental notification, no questions, and no oversight,” he noted.
“Because right now, Alberta rescues victims with one hand — and hands them back to their abusers with the other.”
The real estate maxim goes something like, “Don’t buy the best house on a bad street.” For Albertans smarting from the recent election, that sentiment is starting to gain momentum. Seeing themselves as the credit card for Carney Canada, 47 percent of Albertans recently polled by Leger say they’d consider ending the ties that bind to Eastern Canada.
There are many emotional arguments for the surge from 27 percent pre-election to the current number— starting with unending equalization payments to ungrateful relatives in Quebec and Ontario. Most pertinent to those dismayed by the East’s infatuation with Mike Myers and hockey sweaters is the unsustainable Trudeau Easy Money economy, the real estate bubble that replaced conventional economy since 2015. (Trudeau’s decade left Canada with the lowest GDP in the western world and a $1.26T debt.)
There are now clear signs that the real-estate economy— in the form of condos— created by Trudeau’s post-modern philosophy is about to dive and take with it a good deal of wealth from Canadians and the financial industry. (RBC, the largest lender in Canada just reported $8.94 billion in loans that are unlikely to be paid back, up 13.5% from the first quarter.) And distancing themselves from an unrealized gains tax on principal residences might be a smart move for Alberta and whoever else wants to save their skin.
For the decade before Donald Trump called his bluff, Woke Canada bought Trudeau’s notion you could have wealth without work. The Trudeau notion of an economy was to de-industrialize Canada, resort to “clean” renewable power and live off the equity in Boomers’ homes. Oh, and use billions in tax dollars to push home prices higher for the past 10 years while importing four million new entitled folks.
As Trudeau’s advisor, Mark Carney subscribed to the idea that playing the real-estate game to fund a modern state, the way Albania once based its economy on a lottery. Municipal governments liked the idea of condo financing, because it returned maximum taxation from a small footprint—unlike the cumbersome factories and plants that left for the suburbs.
So they’ve doubled down on real estate while letting traditional industry go to the third world. @MikePMoffatt shows that government taxes and fees add up to $253K on a brand new $1.350M condo in Vancouver, or roughly 19 percent of the price. That $12,000 explains how taxes— and taxes-on-taxes— add over $250K to a Vancouver condo.
This tax hauls why municipalities are pitching hard on multiple-dwelling zoning as a cure-all. No wonder developers in Vancouver are still paying almost double the assessed value for land to build high density housing. In their haste to go big Vancouver realtors are now turning down borderline clients.
But this formula is falling apart. In Toronto, the average monthly rent is now about $2,250. For a condo costing $600K that means’ the investment is $1,800 under water. Little surprise that 20 percent of the city’s condo developments refuse to close. (What has happened to the missing 20 percent? Was it paid off or was it extended in some way?
The economy has seen this bubble coming and yet no one wants to end the party. And that is with tens of thousands of units still to come on stream. You hear stories in the condo/ construction industry in southern Ontario, the Lower Mainland of B.C. and Montreal where a typical builder sold 10 homes in past 12 months compared to the usual 40. Sellers are building exteriors but leaving inside unfinished just to keep crews working.
Some trades say they haven’t worked in a year as the glut suspends work. This is the cost for basing an economy on real-estate speculation. It’s why the Liberals played so hard for the Boomer vote in the election. Calm the aging by protecting the equity built up on their modest homes sitting on valuable property. Which punishes the younger voters who skewed CPC in the election.
While the population booms in Canada and condos sit empty, there remains a dire need for affordable housing in all the main urban markets— including Calgary and Edmonton. But real estate in Canada can’t function based on interest rates over three percent. There is huge political pressure from tax-hungry governments on the Bank of Canada to cut rates. This leads to expectations of 2.79% mortgage rates by the end of 2025.
Mortgage analyst Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy: “From the Feb 2022 peak the regions in Ontario that had the highest run up in 2021 have dropped 17% to 22%. And they will drop some more. We all have begun understand just how big a Catastrophe the 416 Dog Crate Condos have turned into”. (Those who remember the crash of 1980s-1990s have that t-shirt.)
Now replicate the same results across urban Canada. Thousands of owners walking away from underwater mortgages and poorly built homes. While the Big 6 banks can probably sustain writing off that much paper, the smaller funding industry is going to get hammered. Says Butler” “You can’t run 30-year lows in real estate transactions with a 50 percent higher population forever without pressure building from factors like Marriage Breakdown, Old Age & Employment change. But price recovery? More pain coming.
For those who bought the Liberals’ “Change!” Platform as a new economic plan based on frugality and efficiency, guess again. With Parliament prorogued the Carneyites have been ladling out billions of dollars both pre-and post-election to keep the economy from stagnating. Still, 1.4 million Canadians missed credit payments in the first three months of 2025, up 146K from this time last year.
Getting as far away from this economic collapse as possible might just be the biggest incentive for Albertans to run their own show in the future. Siphoning off energy profits to save Toronto and Ottawa from condo crates and phoney real estate developments is hardly a patriotic incentive. (To say nothing of getting away from the offshore money-laundering operations now thriving in Canada.)
Carney’s Throne speech that was supposed to woo the West was full of the usual Liberal bromides that sound good but are quickly swallowed by process and review. Then pipelines he promised in the campaign? Guess again. If he’d wanted to help Canadians he’d have adopted a tax structure like Ireland, Japan or Hong Kong that would eliminate 80 percent of CRA staff.
But he’s not dong that because the Ottawa region where those CRA people live is solid red. His election owed much to white-collar unions and media that polished his apple. The contradictions between Carney’s promises and reality will soon pile up. His Euro-based climate and social media policies will tell on a jaded public. His housing minister— who has promised to stabilize house prices— produced 170 percent jump in home prices while mayor of Vancouver.
Which will give Danielle Smith all she needs to introduce plans, if not for separation, then for a new decentralized Canada. Book it by 2027.
Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, Bruce is regular media contributor. The new book from there team of Evan & Bruce Dowbiggin is Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL & Changed Hockey. From Espo to Boston in 1967 to Gretz in L.A. in 1988 to Patrick Roy leaving Montreal in 1995, the stories behind the story. In paperback and Kindle on #Amazon. Destined to be a hockey best seller. https://www.amazon.ca/Deal-Trades-Stunned-Changed-Hockey-ebook/dp/B0D236NB35/
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