As soon as Canada’s Justice Minister Peter MacKay announced a new proposed prostitution law, it was immediately criticized as a disaster by critics who say the government will put sex workers into more dangerous situations than ever.
On Wednesday (June 4) Minister MacKay announced that the government’s new legislation would target customers of sex workers and pimps, and protect vulnerable sex-workers particularly young people.
The new law comes as response to a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in December, 2013 which struck down three provisions of Canada’s Criminal Code, the keeping or being found in a bawdy house or brothel, the living on the avails of prostitution, and communicating in public for the purpose of prostitution – saying all three violate the right to security of the person guaranteed under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda has a report.
ListenMore information:
Justice Minister press release – here
National Post – John Ivison: Peter MacKay’s prostitution law a failure on all counts – here
RCI – Supreme Court strikes down certain limits on prostitution in Canada, but… – here
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