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- Alberta Pension Plan engagement
- Alberta Police Service transition study
- K to 6 curriculum engagement
- Persons with Developmental Disabilities Safety Standards Consultation
- 2016 Forest and Prairie Protection Act amendments engagement
- Castle and Wildland provincial parks management plan engagement
- Caribou conservation agreement engagement
- Budget 2016 consultation
- Bow Basin water management options engagement
- 10-year tourism strategy engagement
- Physician-assisted death public engagement
- Agency and Human Services Procurement Advisory Table engagement
- Alberta Firearms Advisory Committee
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- Local election rules engagement (2020)
- Mental health and addiction advisory council
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- Skills for Jobs Task Force
- Municipal Government Act review
- Student Transportation Task Force
- Addiction and mental health services engagement
- Cut Red Tape engagement
- Advisory Panel on Coal Communities
- Advocate for Persons with Disabilities consultation
- Wapiti river water management plan engagement
- Bow Valley human-wildlife coexistence engagement
- Energy Efficiency Advisory Panel
- Budget 2020 consultation
- Infrastructure planning engagement
- Food regulation engagement
- Human Trafficking Task Force
- Talent Advisory Council on Technology
- Transportation regulation engagement
- Vision for student learning engagement
- Alberta Energy Regulator review
- Alberta Health Services review
- Arts Professions Act engagement
- Budget 2019 consultation (February)
- Castle region tourism strategy engagement
- Child safety seat consultation
- City Charters
- Condominium rules consultation
- Conversion Therapy Working Group
- Daylight saving time engagement
- Employment standards engagement
- Farm freedom and safety engagement
- FSCD Listening sessions
- MacKinnon Report on Alberta's Finances
- Mental Health Act engagement
- Minimum wage expert panel
- Road testing engagement
- Rural crime engagement
- Supervised consumption services review
- Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction engagement
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- Youth employment rules engagement
- Agricultural policy framework engagement
- Commercial driver and road test engagement
- Local Authorities Election Act engagement (2018)
- Local food engagement
- OHS regulations consultation
- Sixties Scoop apology engagement
- Builder licensing engagement
- Consumer protection consultation
- Farm and Ranch workplace consultations
- Farm and ranch workplace legislation
- Glenora building – Former Royal Alberta Museum
- Indigenous off-reserve affordable housing engagement
- OHS system review
- Opioid emergency response commission
- Output Based Allocation System Engagement
- Resident and Family Councils Act - PDD consultation
- Driver medical exams engagement
- Farmer-led research engagement
- Clare’s Law phase 2 engagement
- Alberta Joint Working Group on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)
- Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs engagement
- Red tape industry panels
- Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act review
- Radiation Protection Act review
- Affordable Housing Review Panel
- Highway 697 bridge financing engagement
- RAPID Response engagement
- Species at risk engagements
- Police Act review
- Victim services engagement
- Family and Community Support Services engagement
- Moose Lake 10 km management zone plan engagement
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Fisheries engagements
- Alberta fisheries management engagement
- Fisheries Action Plan communications preference survey
- Fisheries regulation changes 2019-20 engagement
- Eastern slopes fisheries regulations engagement
- Decontamination protocol engagement for industry and construction
- Barbless hooks engagement
- Bow River fisheries regulation changes engagement
- Lac Bellevue angler survey
- Lower Athabasca region fisheries management survey
- North central native trout recovery engagement
- North Saskatchewan region fisheries management survey
- Northern pike and walleye management frameworks engagement
- South Saskatchewan region fisheries management survey
- 2021-22 Sportfishing regulations engagement
- Fisheries regulations survey
- 2022-23 Sportfishing regulations engagement
- Lake Trout Working Group for Cold Lake
- Porsild’s bryum recovery plan engagement
- Ferruginous hawk draft recovery plan engagement
- Livingstone-Porcupine Hills footprint and recreation plans engagement
- Caribou range planning engagement
- Whitebark and limber pine recovery plan engagement
- Western grebe draft recovery plan engagement
- Bow River access plan engagement
- Peregrine falcon recovery plan engagement
- Bighorn Country proposal engagement
- Minerals strategy stakeholder engagement
- Budget 2021 consultation
- Energy Diversification Advisory Committee
- Condominium dispute resolution engagement
- Climate Change Advisory Panel
- Oil Sands Emissions Limit engagement
- Automobile insurance reform committee
- Mooring standards engagement
- Utilities Consumer Advocate engagement
- Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) Review
- Workers’ compensation review
- Mobile home site issues engagement
- Labour union dues and financial disclosure engagement
- Family Support for Children with Disabilities engagement
- Alberta Crown Land Vision
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Flood study engagements
- Athabasca flood study engagement
- Bow and Elbow River flood study engagement
- Camrose flood study engagement
- Cardston flood study engagement
- Drumheller flood study engagement
- Fort Macleod flood study engagement
- Medicine Hat flood study engagement
- North Saskatchewan River flood study engagement
- Peace River flood study engagement
- Pincher Creek flood study engagement
- Priddis flood study engagement
- Red Deer River flood study engagement
- Sheep River flood study engagement
- Siksika Bow River flood study engagement
- Slave Lake flood study engagement
- St. Albert flood study engagement
- Upper Bow River flood study engagement
- Fort McMurray flood study engagement
- Upper Red Deer River flood study engagement
- Fort Vermilion flood study engagement
- Highwood River flood study engagement
- Sustainable outdoor recreation engagement
- Financing Highway 697 project engagement
- Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland Park engagement
- Persons with Developmental Disabilities Committee
- Reviewing Alberta's continuing care system
- Cold Lake Sub-regional Plan engagement
- Bull trout recovery plan engagement
- Roadside worker safety engagement
- Bistcho Lake Sub-regional Plan engagement
- Extended Producer Responsibility engagement
- Energy storage engagement
- OHS Code review
- Sub-regional planning engagements
- Coal policy engagement
- Updated draft K-6 curriculum engagement
- Feral Horse Advisory Committee
- Supporting Alberta Working Parents Advisory Group
- Fish Creek Provincial Park trails engagement
- Bow River Reservoir Options engagement
- Skilled trades and apprenticeship engagement
- Child and Youth Well-Being Review
- Agricultural Policy Framework engagement (2021-23)
- Elder abuse prevention engagement
- Local Food Council
- Surface water quality management framework engagements
- Privacy protection engagement
- Fair Deal Panel
- Strategic Aviation Advisory Council
- Education Services Agreement draft standards engagement
- Wildlife Management and the Vision for Recreational Hunting engagement
- Rural economic development engagement
- Wild turkey management engagement
- Drinking water standards engagement
- Provincial police service engagement
- Surveys Act engagement
- Modernizing cooperative legislation engagement
- Photo radar engagement
- Budget 2022 consultation
- Coordinated Community Response to Homelessness Task Force
- Research Commercialization Working Group
- Mine Financial Security Program engagement
- West Bragg Creek Trails Master Plan engagement
- Made in Alberta engagement
- Potable water regulation updates engagement
- Stormwater management engagement
- Alberta EMS Provincial Advisory Committee
- Edmonton Metro Region Economic Recovery Working Group
- Calgary Office Revitalization and Expansion Working Group
- Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park management plan engagement
- Regulated property assessment model engagement
- Personal Property Security engagement
- Big Island Provincial Park engagement
- Private sector pensions review engagement
- Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction Regulation Review
- Career Education Task Force
- Parkdale Home stakeholder engagement
- Lower Athabasca Regional Plan review engagement
- Anti-racism engagement
- New teacher code of conduct engagement
- Modernizing Alberta's Primary Health Care System
- New homebuyer protection engagement
- Budget 2023 consultation
- Premier’s Advisory Task Force on Ukraine
- Public Security Indigenous Advisory Committee
- Digital Strategy engagement
- Edmonton Public Safety and Community Response Task Force
- Calgary Public Safety and Community Response Task Force
- Legislature grounds improvement engagement
- 2023-24 Sportfishing Regulation Engagement
- Public Health Emergencies Governance Review Panel
- Post-secondary gender-based violence stakeholder engagement
- Diabetes Working Group
- Tiny Cryptantha Recovery Plan engagement
- Small-Flowered Sand-Verbena Recovery Plan engagement
- Fort Chipewyan working group
- Recovery Expert Advisory Panel
- Improving the health system
- Public inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns
- Glossary of terms
- Public engagements 2012 to 2015
Overview
The Alberta Human Trafficking Task Force was appointed to provide recommendations on how to best implement our 9-point Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking.
The task force consisted of members dedicated to fighting human trafficking and empowering survivors. Their final report was submitted to government on August 31, 2021.
Human trafficking is a serious crime taking 3 forms: sexual exploitation, forced labour trafficking, and trafficking in human organs or tissues.
Timeline
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Open
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Results under review
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Completed
Who is listening
Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General
Report and recommendations
The task forces' final report The Reading Stone – The Survivor’s Lens to Human Trafficking and all their recommendations have been accepted by government for further work and consideration as we implement the 9-point action plan.
Mandate
Alberta's human trafficking task force:
- provided guidance and recommendations on supports for survivors
- enhanced collaboration among all stakeholders and organizations that work with survivors of human trafficking in order to prevent, protect and ensure their safety
- engaged experts to identify what actions are needed to bring transformational and sustainable change
- provided recommendations to help government implement the nine-point action plan and lobby other levels of government to take coordinated action
Task force members
We thank the members of the Alberta human trafficking task force for their dedication and support to fight human trafficking.
Paul Brandt, chair
Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame artist Paul Brandt is an internationally recognized and awarded humanitarian, philanthropist, musician and performer. He is the founder of #NotInMyCity, a movement that is raising awareness and taking collective action to prevent and end sexual exploitation and trafficking of children and youth. In 2019, he received the Slaight Humanitarian Award at the CCMA Awards for his outstanding humanitarian contributions to #NotInMyCity. Later that year, to recognize his dedication to ending human trafficking and child sexual exploitation, he was honoured with a Blackfoot name: Buffalo Bull Shield.
Heather Forsyth
Throughout her political career, Heather Forsyth has served Albertans, including as the solicitor general and as the minister of Children’s Services. She launched the high risk offender website, established the first Amber Alert, which she took across the country, brought forward the Integrated Response to Organized Crime, and worked to pass several pieces of legislation to combat child pornography and protect youth involved in drug activity and prostitution.
Jan Fox
Jan Fox is the executive director for REACH Edmonton, a not-for-profit organization created to make Edmonton a safer place to live and work. She is also a consultant with the Robcan Group, which provides training and development services to business, industry, government and communities. She previously served as a district director with the Government of Canada managing labour relations issues and as a warden at the Edmonton Institution for Women.
Dale McFee
Edmonton chief of police Dale McFee has an extensive background in policing, including 26 years as an officer in Saskatchewan and six years as the deputy minister of corrections and policing for Saskatchewan. For four years, he co-chaired the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics and federal, provincial and territorial deputy ministers in partnership with Public Safety Canada, previously served as president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, and was a member of the Parkland Health Board for three years.
Douglas Reti
After a 27-year career with the RCMP in the Yukon, Douglas Reti went on to manage detachments in Indigenous communities throughout the north, as well as Alberta and Manitoba. He served as senior executive and director general of the RCMP Indigenous Relations Services and was responsible for the development of national policy and strategic direction of National Aboriginal Policing Services. Since his retirement from policing, he has worked in numerous consultative and collaborative roles with Indigenous communities, and is currently the director of security for Backwoods Energy, a company owned by the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation.
Patricia Vargas
Patricia Vargas is a director at Catholic Social Services where she oversees facilities for high-risk youth, second stage shelter and housing. She is a board member of the Global Network of Women’s Shelters and has been the architect of bringing 11 countries together to develop a protocol to transfer victims of human trafficking from shelter to shelter internationally. She has participated in various task forces, think tanks and round tables nationally on the issue of human trafficking.
Tyler White
Tyler White is an advocate provincially and nationally for First Nations’ People. He is the chief executive officer of Siksika Health Services, and he serves on the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta council as a public member. He was instrumental in bringing together Treaties 6, 7 and 8 in the formation of the Alberta Health Consortium in response to the Federal Action Plan on Jordan’s Principle, and was as a member of the Provincial Child Intervention Panel and the Provincial Mental Health Review.
News
- Fighting human trafficking (March 27, 2022)
- Task force to help protect some of Alberta’s most vulnerable (May 19, 2020)