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Challenge to prostitution laws delayed, moved to Kitchener

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Updated: May 31, 2018


A groundbreaking London case challenging Canada’s controversial prostitution laws won’t be argued until early next year.

And the arguments won’t be heard in London.

Scheduling issues and courtroom space have sent the case to Kitchener on Jan. 29 and 30 for oral submissions from the Crown and the defence.

The case is being heard by Ontario Court Justice Thomas McKay.

Hamad Anwar, 28, and Tiffany Harvey, 26, who ran Fantasy World Escorts, were charged in November 2015 with 26 counts in November 2015, including receiving material benefit from someone else’s sexual services, procurement and advertising.

Their case seems tailor-made to challenge the three-year old prostitution act, Bill C-36, which outlaws buying sex but not selling it and allows for the prosecution of people who advertise sex work and make money off sex workers.

It’s widely expected that Anwar and Harvey’s case won’t end in the Ontario Court, but will work its way to the Supreme Court of Canada if the laws remain in place.

The federal Liberal government is under pressure to re-visit the laws that were passed by the former Conservative government.


https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/challenge-to-prostitution-laws-delayed-moved-to-kitchener
 

Samantha Jones

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This is where we need to rally and make our voices heard- even if it involves wearing masks. This is affecting a lot of people, meanwhile it is legal in 15 countries. I am still scared sometimes when I speak out for animals- but we never get in that much trouble and its such a rush worth fighting for!!
 

drlove

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This is where we need to rally and make our voices heard- even if it involves wearing masks. This is affecting a lot of people, meanwhile it is legal in 15 countries. I am still scared sometimes when I speak out for animals- but we never get in that much trouble and its such a rush worth fighting for!!
Agreed...This would be a perfect venue for a protest / protest march against C-36. The media will cover it and thrust it back into the public eye. In turn, it will put pressure on Trudeau to live up to his promise to revisit/amend/repeal the law.
 
While protests may urge on both sides of the argument, hopefully, the defense will use similar arguments in the historically long opinion of the Ontario Supreme Court that was upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada under the safety of persons clause of the Charter.

At least it seems most cities in Canada continue to follow the harm reduction princiapal of the Ontario court that being illegal INCREASES harm .

I assume as in the Ontario court case, all the anti-groups, SWERFs etc will file friend of the court briefs supporting C-36 or trying to argue C36 should be repealed and go back to making incalls and living of avils illegal. But hopefuly this case is more narrow.

I suspect if the guy is found innocent the Crown will appeal so this could be a long dragged out fight just like the previous case that made prostitution mostly legal.
 

drlove

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While protests may urge on both sides of the argument, hopefully, the defense will use similar arguments in the historically long opinion of the Ontario Supreme Court that was upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada under the safety of persons clause of the Charter.

At least it seems most cities in Canada continue to follow the harm reduction princiapal of the Ontario court that being illegal INCREASES harm .

I assume as in the Ontario court case, all the anti-groups, SWERFs etc will file friend of the court briefs supporting C-36 or trying to argue C36 should be repealed and go back to making incalls and living of avils illegal. But hopefuly this case is more narrow.

I suspect if the guy is found innocent the Crown will appeal so this could be a long dragged out fight just like the previous case that made prostitution mostly legal.
So, assuming this case goes ahead, and proceeds through the court system over time, will it expand to include the issue of legality/the non sensical nature of making the selling of sex legal but the purchase of it illegal? E.g. If the guy wins his case, and the courts rule his agency is legally allowed to advertise the services of others as a third party, would it not make the tenet of keeping the purchase of sex illegal unpalatable?
 

Hugh G. Rekshun

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This is where we need to rally and make our voices heard...
Most politicians, media, and therefore the general public don't seem to know or care that the thousands of sex workers across the country exist, or have the false impression that all or most are trafficking victims. I don't know what it will take for that to eventually change. It's hard to envision huge numbers of people showing up for protests or demonstrations, or someone successfully putting together a large organized campaign on behalf of a large number of sex workers that would pay for ads hoping to inform and influence the general public.
 

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Most politicians, media, and therefore the general public don't seem to know or care that the thousands of sex workers across the country exist, or have the false impression that all or most are trafficking victims. I don't know what it will take for that to eventually change. It's hard to envision huge numbers of people showing up for protests or demonstrations, or someone successfully putting together a large organized campaign on behalf of a large number of sex workers that would pay for ads hoping to inform and influence the general public.
Yeah, this here is the big problem. This is an issue that most politicians don’t want to touch with a 40 foot pole, and because it’s an issue that’s not on the general public’s radar, there’s no motivation for them to deal with it. Your average person only knows what they see in movies and on tv about sex workers, which is, of course, wildly inaccurate.

As a result, the only people who will demonstrate or talk to politicians are hobbyists, many of whom won’t for privacy reasons, sex worker advocates, of which there are unfortunately few, and extremists and abolitionists. I think the only way to really change things for the better is to educate the public, which won’t be easy. Maybe we need a big Hollywood movie about a happy, well-adjusted sex worker. If it gets big, maybe wins an Oscar, maybe the public will latch on to sex worker’s rights as a new trendy thing to virtue signal about on social media?
 

Hugh G. Rekshun

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...what they see in movies and on tv about sex workers, which is, of course, wildly inaccurate.
It's from 8 years ago, but I remember seeing the idiotic local CTV news report mentioned in this column, that tried and failed to find any evidence to back up their misconceptions, and yet still refused to acknowledge that maybe these women in their 40s might not fit into the victim stereotype.
http://nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/special-report-hoes-in-toronto/
 
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