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What can you do if you witness or are a victim of financial exploitation?

Nobody, no matter what age, deserves to be exploited. You have the right to react and protect yourself.

Victims and witnesses of exploitation can get free and confidential help from several sources.

Quebec residents

• Speak to someone you can trust (friend, relative, nurse, doctor, priest or minister, social worker or police officer).
• Notify your caisse.
• Contact an organization in your locality:
  • the CLSC
  • the Association québécoise pour la défense des droits des retraités et préretraités (AQDR) or any other organization for the protection of seniors.
• Lodge a complaint with the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse du Québec (CDPDJ).
  Montréal: 514-873-5146, outside Montréal: 1-800-361-6477
• Call the Centre québécois de consultation sur l'abus envers les aînés - Info-Abus Line.
  Montréal: 514-489-ABUS (2287), outside Montréal: 1-888-489-ABUS (2287)

Ontario residents

• Speak to someone you can trust (friend, relative, nurse, doctor, priest or minister, social worker or police officer).
• Notify your caisse.
• Lodge a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission Toronto: 416-326-9511, outside Toronto: 1-800-387-5559.
• Call the Ontario Seniors' Secretariat, Seniors' InfoLine, toll-free: 1-888-910-1999, TTY: 1-800-387-5559.

How to avoid financial exploitation.