Canada high court strikes down all prostitution restrictions

[searchthelimits]

Canada's Supreme Court struck down major restrictions on prostitution on Friday, including bans on brothels and street solicitation, declaring the laws unconstitutional because they violated prostitutes' safety.

The sweeping 9-0 decision will take effect in one year, inviting Parliament to try to come up with some other way to regulate the sex trade if it chooses to do so.

Prostitution is technically legal in Canada but most related activities have been illegal, including living off the avails of someone else's prostitution. The court found these prohibitions were overly broad or grossly out of proportion to the law's goals.

[royamcr]

Anyone want to move to canada with me?

[JayceeRivers]

I love Canada. I am going to move there some day.

[Guest030114]

I love hockey. Makes two reasons to move to Vancouver (really close to Seattle).

[DestinyInKC]

Hockey and hookers, cant get better than that!

[Nero Wolfe]

Just saw this

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...stitution.html

[Mr. Magyar]

Originally Posted by DestinyInKC

Hockey and hookers, cant get better than that!

+1000 well I'd like to think so since I've yet to experience the latter.

[BigDeal]

More and more kids are going to Canada to go to school....I here they get more A's

[KenMonk]

Canada seems more appealing by the day.

[MsElena]

Check out the cost of living though. As appealing as it is, its so not cheap to there.

[DrCanuck]

Prostitution in Canada is not illegal, solicitation is.

[Unique_Carpenter]

Originally Posted by MsElena

Check out the cost of living though. As appealing as it is, its so not cheap to there.

Full government run medical services. So if you dislike where Obamacare is going....

Also, it appears that massage services, depending on an individual’s specific situation, may need to have a sales tax calculation.
Up north, they now call that "goods and services tax / harmonized sales tax (formerly value added tax).

Here's an article on that topic where the "expert" is a Revenue Canada (their version of our beloved IRS) guy. Nicely confusing presentation.

http://www.canadaone.com/ezine/exper...l?id=10Aug09_1

By the way, depending on the province (state) as much as a 15% addon. Unless exempt, if you qualify.
Which requires the pub to be open, and a keg tapped, to explain.
Any speculation as to whether I'm having a boring day?