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Judges should toss human traffickers in jail and “throw away the keys,” Premier Doug Ford said Thursday in detailing his government’s $20-million anti-human trafficking strategy.

“This is disgusting what they’re doing to our young people and it shouldn’t be tolerated and the judges shouldn’t be tolerating it either,” Ford said Thursday. “Rather than give them a slap on the wrist and letting them back out, they need to be thrown in jail and throw away the keys. It’s absolutely disgusting.”

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The anti-human trafficking strategy will be led by Solicitor General Sylvia Jones and Children and Women’s Issues Associate Minister Jill Dunlop, he said.

The government says it will provide $7 million a year for a Community Supports Fund that provides “wraparound” services such as emergency housing and addiction treatment to survivors.