For more than a year, the Canada Revenue Agency has failed to help a survivor of human trafficking working to take her life back.
Cassandra Harvey has been left struggling financially to support her two young daughters and rebuild her life after experiencing devastating trauma at the hands of numerous traffickers who racked up more than $60,000 of debt in her name. This included fraudulent benefit claims, payday loans and credit card debt.
While she is free from the clutches of her predators, she still feels trapped.
“I can’t get ahead because of the fact that I’m stuck,” she shares. “All of the money I have just goes to surviving.”
Increasingly, financial institutions are starting to…