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I wouldn't be opposed to chainging the laws. However, I have trouble seeing how you could be more lax on pimps and brothels without encouraging organized crime and human trafickers to step in.

Maybe no pimps but licenses and STD testing instead? Maybe that protects the consumer more than the women though.

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Well if sex trade workers became just like any other workers, they could enter the country relatively easily on worker's visas. That would really hurt human traffickers. There are probably still traffickers trafficking in maids and other workers but since it is also legal, there isn't a whole lot of it compared to sex trade workers.

It is still protecting people and that is what the government should care about. Lower STD rates would also benefit the healthcare system.

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Well if sex trade workers became just like any other workers, they could enter the country relatively easily on worker's visas. That would really hurt human traffickers. There are probably still traffickers trafficking in maids and other workers but since it is also legal, there isn't a whole lot of it compared to sex trade workers.

It is still protecting people and that is what the government should care about. Lower STD rates would also benefit the healthcare system.

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Unfortunately that's not even close to the way the sex trade works. The majority of female sex trade workers are coerced into the sex trade by one means or another. Very few women choose to become prostitutes. The proportion who willingly choose to become prostitutes outside of North America is probably almost zero.

The Visa system would not deal with the issue of organized crime trying to profit on the situation. Not to mention you can make a lot more money pimping out a sex worker than you can a maid.

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The federal government is filing an appeal and is supported by the Liberal government of Ontario.

This appeal is in keeping with the 1990 Supreme Court of Canada decision referenced above cited as Reference re ss. 193 & 195.1(1)(c ) of Criminal Code (Canada), (the Prostitution Reference), [1990] 1 S.C.R. 1123 is a leading decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on the right to freedom of expression under section 2(B) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and on prostitution in Canada. The Court held that the criminal code provision that prohibited communication for the purpose of engaging in prostitution was in violation of the right to freedom of expression however it could be justified under section 1 of the Charter and so it was upheld.

The majority found that the purpose of eliminating prostitution was a valid goal and that the provision was rationally connected and proportional to that goal. Accordingly, the provision was upheld.

http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/1990/1990scr1-1123/1990scr1-1123.html

The appeal would be in keeping with long-standing federal government policy - both Conservative and Liberal.

Two years ago, Nicholson flatly rejected a majority recommendation from the House of Commons status of women committee that federal prostitution laws be amended to stop charging prostitutes and start prosecuting only those procuring sex, or exploiting prostitutes, such as pimps and bawdy house owners.

"We have no intention of changing any of the laws relating to prostitution in this country," Nicholson told the committee during hearings.

"We have laws with respect to street soliciting or soliciting in public places that criminalizes completely the activity — the individual that is trying to purchase that service and the individual that is offering it. And (those) will continue to be the laws of this country."

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The federal government is filing an appeal and is supported by the Liberal government of Ontario.

This appeal is in keeping with the 1990 Supreme Court of Canada decision referenced above cited as Reference re ss. 193 & 195.1(1)(c ) of Criminal Code (Canada), (the Prostitution Reference), [1990] 1 S.C.R. 1123 is a leading decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on the right to freedom of expression under section 2(B) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and on prostitution in Canada. The Court held that the criminal code provision that prohibited communication for the purpose of engaging in prostitution was in violation of the right to freedom of expression however it could be justified under section 1 of the Charter and so it was upheld.

The majority found that the purpose of eliminating prostitution was a valid goal and that the provision was rationally connected and proportional to that goal. Accordingly, the provision was upheld.

http://scc.lexum.umo...0scr1-1123.html

The appeal would be in keeping with long-standing federal government policy - both Conservative and Liberal.

http://www.vancouver...l#ixzz10xyxsLUf

As CBC reports:

http://www.cbc.ca/ca...l#ixzz10xvlAyZ8

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Um, I don't know about you, but I would rather scub toilets and handle the trash then take it up the you know what......

Weigh the pros and cons?

Con: Taking it up the you know what. Freezing on a street corner. Risk of violence and disease. Personal space reduced to zero. Being reduced to a commodity.

Pro: Some extra cash to get high on.

I sincerely doubt that more than a handfull decide rationally to get into it. More often than not it will be a case of being forced into it through some sort of desperation/addiction/explotation. Don't kid yourself, it's not pretty women, it's turning people into a disposable commodity.

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Um, I don't know about you, but I would rather scub toilets and handle the trash then take it up the you know what......

Weigh the pros and cons?

Con: Taking it up the you know what. Freezing on a street corner. Risk of violence and disease. Personal space reduced to zero. Being reduced to a commodity.

Pro: Some extra cash to get high on.

I sincerely doubt that more than a handfull decide rationally to get into it. More often than not it will be a case of being forced into it through some sort of desperation/addiction/explotation. Don't kid yourself, it's not pretty women, it's turning people into a disposable commodity.

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