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Canada high court strikes down all restrictions on prostitution [W:232]

My guess is that the Canadian Ballet will be offering a new line item on its menu for their guests.

Canadian Ballet refers to the Sundowner strip club in Niagara Falls, Ca. World famous place so many will know what I'm talking about. :)


Tim-

Montreal has a whole area designated to this and those things were already on the menu.

This is good news indeed.
 
Yes you do.
It has been stated.
Go back to the OP and read it is you do not understand that which is obvious.

No, I don't, give the boundries of morality that I must live in as determined by you, be specific, show your work.
 
No, I don't, give the boundries of morality that I must live in as determined by you, be specific, show your work.
:doh
Now you are not making any sense. It seems purposely so.

Go back an read the OP if you do not understand.
 
:doh
You made no point.

You have given no answer other than your nebulous views on how someone having sex somewhere that you don't witness or know about is affecting you, or decency or morality, etc. Specifics...
 
You have given no answer other than your nebulous views on how someone having sex somewhere that you don't witness or know about is affecting you, or decency or morality, etc. Specifics...
And again.

You are not making any sense. It seems purposely so.

Go back an read the OP if you do not understand.
 
BTW, the gay marriage ban in Utah just got struck down by a Federal Judge.

LOL
 
Of course it sounds smart to you.
It still is an erosion of decent standards.

Which standards have been eroded? All this means is that a prostitute can now legally talk with a potential customer in the open, instead of having to jump in a car or duck down an alley to hold discussions. This gives the prostitute an opportunity to decide whether or not this is a person she wants to deal with.

The Canadian Govt. will come up with a new law in the coming year. Perhaps one that makes it illegal to buy sex. This would mean only johns can be arrested.
 
Montreal has a whole area designated to this and those things were already on the menu.

This is good news indeed.

Some forms of prostitution were already legal, this just makes every other form legal aswell.
 
Which standards have been eroded? All this means is that a prostitute can now legally talk with a potential customer in the open, instead of having to jump in a car or duck down an alley to hold discussions. This gives the prostitute an opportunity to decide whether or not this is a person she wants to deal with.

The Canadian Govt. will come up with a new law in the coming year. Perhaps one that makes it illegal to buy sex. This would mean only johns can be arrested.

Well unless a court strikes that one down to. Four of those judges were appointed by the Conservatives and it was still unanimous. The Conservatives would be hypocrites if they tried.
 
And again.
Those standards are known by all. Have they not been eroded?
Of course they have.


I do not care if you agree or don't agree with those standards. They have been further eroded.

We would not keep asking if "we all knew."

Now...can you tell us or not? (Well, you wont, but that is different)
 
We would not keep asking if "we all knew."
BS!
It is in the OP. Either you read it or you didn't.
If you didn't that is on you. Go back and read it.
If you did, then you are playing an absurd game.

And frankly you are being silly saying you don't know what those standards that were that were changed by the Court.
 
All restrictions...

So if a gal wants to set up shop outside of a school, that is fine? Or walking up and down the street in front of your house? Or in a public park?

You have to remember, I do not see prostitution as a big deal myself. However, removing all restrictions I think is pretty stupid.

Any business must conform to commercial zoning and any other conditions in their business licenses.
 
Any business must conform to commercial zoning and any other conditions in their business licenses.

Is there a law currently in Canada for proper zoning of prostitution? Are there business licenses for prostitution?
 
Any business must conform to commercial zoning and any other conditions in their business licenses.

Hmm, so Canada now issues business licenses to street prostitutes?
 
Hmm, so Canada now issues business licenses to street prostitutes?

LOL Sorry no. It was something that seemed implied as next steps in the article.
 
BS!
It is in the OP. Either you read it or you didn't.
If you didn't that is on you. Go back and read it.
If you did, then you are playing an absurd game.

And frankly you are being silly saying you don't know what those standards that were that were changed by the Court.

I did you the courtesy of going back and reading it again.

Nowhere did it list 'standards of decency or indecency'....that you claim *we all know."


So...can you please answer the question, as the article did not.
 
LOL Sorry no. It was something that seemed implied as next steps in the article.

The problem is, these things need to be discussed and implemented before all existing laws are struck down.

Many times here in the US we have had Supreme Courts toss a law out, but by sending it back to the State or Community to be reworked, not simply tossing out every law.
 
The problem is, these things need to be discussed and implemented before all existing laws are struck down.

Many times here in the US we have had Supreme Courts toss a law out, but by sending it back to the State or Community to be reworked, not simply tossing out every law.

It happens alot, lol.

Totally happened with legalizing pot in WA and CO for example.
 
I just went and read some articles on this, and it simply blows my mind.

The high court struck down all three prostitution-related laws: against keeping a brothel, living on the avails of prostitution, and street soliciting. The landmark ruling comes more than two decades after the Supreme Court last upheld the country's anti-prostitution laws.

The decision upheld an Ontario Court of Appeal ruling last year that struck down the ban on brothels on the grounds that it endangered sex workers by forcing them onto the streets.
Canadian court strikes down anti-prostitution laws

Now am I the only one scratching my head over this? They say brothels keep it off the streets and make it safer, yet at the same time makes it legal to solicit on the streets.

Sorry, if I lived in Canada I would have a gigantic sign made up saying "This whore is a prostitute", and walk behind any lady I saw soliciting in my neighborhood. So they have a legal Constitutional right to do it on the street. Fine, I just do not want it on my street, and will just use my legal right of free speech to hopefully make them move elsewhere.

Who knows, I might even make a business of making such signs, so others can do the same thing until they go somewhere more appropriate. Like say a rural farm road where they only annoy the cows and goats.
 
You have to realize, I worked for many years in the "Adult Entertainment Industry". And while I do not think it should be outlawed, I also do not believe things should be a free-for-all either.

This removal of all restrictions makes Canada almost sound like a Libertarian Paradise. 16 year old girl prostitution herself to a 16 year old boy, why not? Hookers setting up at bus stops, what the heck, why not? No restrictions after all.

Now what they should have done if they were smart was to overthrow parts, pending revision of current laws. Throwing out all restrictions is simple insanity.

This decision did not say that the law could not regulate or restrict prostitution in any way. It merely struck down the restrictions that existed.
 
This decision did not say that the law could not regulate or restrict prostitution in any way. It merely struck down the restrictions that existed.

But it will take months at the minimum to enact such restrictions. So until such restrictions are enacted and vetted legally, we have none at all.
 
But it will take months at the minimum to enact such restrictions. So until such restrictions are enacted and vetted legally, we have none at all.

Why should people have their liberty restricted by laws which contradict the constitution simply because the legislature was too incompetent to craft a legitimate law?
 
But it will take months at the minimum to enact such restrictions. So until such restrictions are enacted and vetted legally, we have none at all.

It will evolve, just like the pot laws and similar things. Do you see some particular dangers to society or prostitutes that didnt exist before?
 
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