I'm not an expert on the situation here, but yes is the short answer, if you speak to any of the major international groups that are fighting the trafficking of young women.
My next book is on trafficking and child prostitutes. We can talk about human trafficking, but the biggest amount of human trafficking that takes place in our country is domestic. In other words, it's the trafficking of young girls from the east end of Montreal to work in strip joints along the highway. It's the trafficking of girls from Alberta to work in strip bars or as prostitutes in Vancouver. Sure, the foreign element is important, but the absolute vast majority of girls who are trafficked in our country are Canadian girls. It's the same in the United States with American girls. That trafficking is done through organized crime networks.
The Hells Angels are known to control a big part of the prostitution networks in British Columbia. At the time I was investigating the Hells Angels here, most of the strip joints up and down the highway were controlled by organized crime. You can't have that network of prostitution and strip joints without organized crime being involved.