E-7839 Financial relief for trafficking survivors Petition Tracker | Signature Growth — Canadian Petition Tracker
Track E-7839 — Financial relief for trafficking survivors — with 83 signatures and counting. Sponsored by Danielle Martin. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
Canonical URL: https://petitiontracker.ca/petition/e-7839
Petition Details
- Status: Active — open for signatures
- Closing date: February 19, 2027
- Sponsor: Danielle Martin (University—Rosedale)
- Category: Justice
Signature Statistics
Provincial Distribution
- Ontario: 51 signatures
- Alberta: 8 signatures
- British Columbia: 8 signatures
- Quebec: 8 signatures
- Saskatchewan: 3 signatures
- Manitoba: 1 signatures
- Northwest Territories: 1 signatures
- Nova Scotia: 1 signatures
Petition Text
Petition to the Government of Canada
Whereas:
• Human trafficking, sexual violence, and domestic violence, can involve financial exploitation, including identity theft, coerced debt, fraudulent use of government benefits, tax liabilities, credit damage, and financial transactions undertaken without the survivor's meaningful knowledge or consent;
• Survivors may continue to experience the financial consequences of their exploitation years after leaving trafficking;
• Existing government processes may not adequately account for financial liabilities incurred as a direct consequence of human trafficking;
• Survivors should have accessible, trauma and survivor-informed mechanisms to seek review and relief from financial liabilities arising from their exploitation; and
• The lived experience of survivors should inform the development of government policies and processes addressing financial exploitation associated with human trafficking, sexual violence, and domestic violence.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to:
1. Develop a federal framework to identify, review, and provide appropriate relief from federal debts, tax liabilities, benefit overpayments, and other financial obligations incurred as a direct result of human trafficking, sexual violence, domestic violence, or exploitation;
2. Review existing federal legislation, policies, and CRA procedures to identify barriers preventing survivors from obtaining such relief;
3. Establish clear, trauma and survivor-informed processes for assessing these cases without unreasonable delay, and unnecessarily requiring survivors to repeatedly disclose or prove their lived experience; and
4. Establish a survivor-informed advisory board on financial exploitation, including people with lived experience, to advise the federal government on policy, legislative reform, and implementation.
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