Ignite the Road to Justice

Ignite the Road to Justice (also called the Ignite the Road to Justice Mission Tour) was a 2011 tour that travelled to ten Canadian cities to raise awareness AbOUT human trafficking around the world. The tour began at Vancouver's Coastal Church on August 14. The church was full and between 12 and 14 non-governmental organizations were represented. Tara Teng, who was Miss Canada at the time, led the tour. The tour came into being as a result of the Freedom Week campaign Teng had organized the spring prior. Teng's team for the Ignite the Road to Justice tour included Kevin Boese, a recording artist; Tania Fiolleau, a former madam who once had more than 500 prostitutes working under her; Anna Demian; and several human-trafficking informants, such as Glendene Grant, mother of human trafficking victim Jessie Foster. This team drove from city to city. In each city, the team partnered with local organizations in order to encourage participation. The cities the team visited included Kamloops, Edmonton, Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Ottawa, and St. Catharines. In Kamloops, the team met in Calvary Community Church and Riverside Park, where Teng spoke from The Shell. While in Thunder Bay, Teng spoke about human trafficking at Evangel Church. The goal of the tour was to foster a grassroots movement that was unified across the country to fight human trafficking. Independent donations funded the tour. The last event of the tour took place on September 4 in Toronto. The Ignite the Road to Justice team argued that, in order to reduce human trafficking, the selling of [...] should be decriminalized and the buying of [...] should be criminalized. The team circulated a petition stating that "the demand for commercial [...] with women and children is the root cause for prostitution and trafficking for [...] purposes."