[3] Seventeen agencies and departments of the Government of Canada participated in the working group.
[4] The group produced a pamphlet in 14 languages with the intention of educating at-risk women about how they might avoid being trafficked.
[6] The IWG-TIP promoted the idea that victims of human trafficking should be primarily served by community organizations.
[7] In 2004, the IWG-TIP was mandated to create a national anti-human-trafficking plan, and both politicians and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) proceeded to remind the IWG-TIP of this unfulfilled mandate for the following eight years.
[9] On March 31, 2004, the IWG-TIP website was updated to state that it was having a meeting with academics and NGOs "to discuss various elements of a potential federal anti-trafficking strategy," but no more updates were made to the website over the following four years.