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On the other hand
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The details are still kinda sketchy, but it looks as if Canada will, in fact, be getting some variation on the Nordic Model. In typical rah-rah patriotic style, the government calls it "the Canadian Model".
The National Post
The focus is supposed to be on prosecuting pimps and johns, but it is not clear to me if the laws against advertising can be used against the prostitutes as well.
As I and others have predicted here, this new law will likely find broad support on the political spectrum, herding in the broad centre ranging from evangelical Christians on the right to "soccer mom"-style feminists on the left, with multiparty support in the House Of Commons. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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According to another article...
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The main targets are “the perpetrators, the perverts, the pimps,” according to Mr. MacKay. But it also takes aim at prostitutes, if they try to sell sexual services in “public places” where people under 18 might reasonably be expected to be present.
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If the government plans to arrest prostitutes for selling sex in front of minors, that kinda contradicts the theory supposedly underlying the other aspects of the law, ie. all prostitutes are helpless victims. Because going by that idea, we'd logically have to assume that the woman selling sex in a school-zone is doing it under duress.
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KimchiNinja
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Interesting. Yet another reason why CA is really cool compared to the US/UK/AU bunch. |
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catman
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| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 2:58 am Post subject: |
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| There is already talk of this law being challenged by sex worker groups. Hopefully it is struck down as well. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 7:35 am Post subject: |
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"A bizarre work of moral panic"
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The bill is an unfortunate departure from the British legal tradition. Neither the sale nor the purchase of sex has been illegal in Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Rather, parliaments in the British tradition have legislated to contain the evils associated with prostitution: to combat the spread of venereal disease, to reduce disorder on the streets, and to prevent young girls (and boys) from being forced into a life of prostitution. Legislation has created criminal offences surrounding prostitution, but has not criminalized the central economic transaction.
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re: the above, I think that is a somewhat overstated(though oft-made) point. True, Canada has never criminalized prositution per se, but the "criminal offenses surrounding prostitution" are so extensive, it has been almost impossible to practice the trade legally.
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Harm reduction is not naive libertarianism. Realistic containment and reduction of harm is a genuinely conservative approach, based on a sober assessment of human weakness. Eradication is for moralistic crusaders and millenarian transformers of the human condition. Campaigns for the complete eradication of alcohol, gambling, prostitution, and drugs have marked the history of the United States, whose Puritan founding has given its political culture a millenarian flavour. Canada has not been immune to such moralistic temptations; but our British legal heritage, reinforced by the Catholic permissiveness of Quebec, has generally prevented us from going as far as American crusaders.
Perhaps the most alarming thing about Bill C-36 is its potential to reunite the coalition of radical feminists, social conservatives, and law-enforcement authorities that gave us the triple moral panic of the 1980s over imaginary sexual abuse of children: satanic abuse in child-care centres, repressed-memory syndrome, and pedophile rings. Families were shattered and people were sent to jail, mainly in the U.S. but also in Canada, for having committed implausible or even impossible sexual offences. Radical feminists wanted to strike at male domination of women and children, social conservatives were worried about sexual permissiveness, and law-enforcement authorities were pioneering new methods of investigation and interrogation. It was a potent combination
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:27 am Post subject: |
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A Conservative bill aimed at restricting the sex trade and discouraging prostitution has passed the Senate, leaving it one step away from becoming law despite warnings it will endanger sex workers and could ultimately be found unconstitutional.
Bill C-36, passed Tuesday, was tabled after the Supreme Court struck down Canada's prostitution laws in its Bedford ruling last December. The court found the laws violated sex workers' Charter rights to safety, and gave the government one year to put in place new laws.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:39 am Post subject: |
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Could Ottawa’s new law on prostitution be dead on arrival? It is highly possible that opposition from provincial governments could see its provisions to prosecute johns and pimps, rather than sellers of sex, wither from lack of use.
The federal government has constitutional authority for creating criminal law, while the provinces implement and administer those laws, Alan Young, an associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, pointed out. “The provinces can decide to nullify a new enactment simply by refusing to prosecute cases brought under this law,” he said.
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