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Canada's Prostitution Laws Struck by Ontario Superior Court Ruling

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Madame Justice Susan Himel of the Ontario Superior Court today released her decision in the challenge to Canada's prostitution laws launched by sex trade worker Terri-Jean Bradford.
"By increasing the risk of harm to street prostitutes, the communicating law is simply too high a price to pay for the alleviation of social nuisance."
-- Madame Justice Susan Himel
  • keeping a common bawdy house (s.210(1)), communication for the purposes of prostitution (s.213(1)(c)), and
  • living on the avails of prostitution (s.212(1)(j)), all on the basis that the laws unnecessarily endanger prostitutes working on the street.
The Crown is moving for a stay of the ruling, to allow the law to stand until Parliament can address the situation with amendments to the Code.

- Christopher Bird, Toronto
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