Pivot Legal Society Report Urges Decriminalization

[midLifeCrisis]

Voices for Dignity: A Call to End the Harms Caused by Canada's Sex Trade Laws (http://www.pivotlegal.org/sextradereport/index.htm)

Write the Minister of Justice (http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/dept/lep-pea/articling/contact.html)

Write your MP (http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/House/PostalCode.asp?lang=E)

[fernie]

http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=51ad2ceb-88d3-4d47-af50-c6fdaafb3e27

Fernie

[HaywoodJabloemy]

Any of you legal types understand how a constitutional challenge to the bawdy house law would take place? Does it have to involve a specific case where someone is on trial for breaking that law and who has a lawyer interested in making that kind of a defence? How long will it take to get to the point where the Supreme Court decides if the laws are constitutional?

I guess it's good that Libby Davies can get those committee hearings going again, but usually they spend a few years to produce a report that gets ignored. The last one took six years and then recommended against decriminalization, because it would "send a message of endorsement of prostitution when there is much evidence of the victimization of its participants" and "may lead to an influx of prostitutes and johns to Canada."

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/1998/12/15/canada/prostitution981215

Wow, what a load of crap. I think we all know the victimizing of its participants occurs mainly because of the criminal laws, not in spite of them. And if the big worry is a huge influx of sex workers to Canada, couldn't we simply limit or stop them from entering the country for that purpose? I believe I've read that's part of what New Zealand did last year when they decriminalized brothels.