For the most part, they don't want to go after SPs working of their own free will trying to make a living. It's not exactly a great PR move to destroy a livelihood of an SP trying to feed her family given social attitudes towards prostitution today.
NO JOHNS CHARGED IN ONTARIO TWO MONTHS AFTER NEW PROSTITUTION LAW ENACTED-Sun Article
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This is a concern because it puts the spot light on the issue and with Wynne declaring they will follow the spirit of the law before sending it to the AG may prove to force her hand. The AG hasn't yet come out condemning the bill for being in her opinion unconstitutional.
The Sun Media along with the Abolitionists are attempting to put pressure on Ontario.
Now said they will defy the law and continue to run ads. Mind you, what choice do they have. Escort ads likely makes up 90% of their advertising revenue. Of course I'm guessing at the percentage, but it's likely a lot.
omg...you're him, aren't you?
You're the dude that hangs out outside of Old City Hall (in warm weather, anyway...the passion apparently doesn't exist in the winter) with those signs going on about the "Taliban" Canadian gov't and still, like 9 years after he burst onto the international scene, blathering about Obama's middle name.
Well, we'll be throwing the bums out of office before that happens, if I have any say in the matter, at least.
There has been a number of people charged.What a coincidenceAnd I hear they are frustrated over decreased revenue from advertising.
I was actually wondering if there has been at least one case in Canada where a client has been charged in some undercover in-call or street operation. I have been waiting to read something like this in the news. But nope... Which is definitely good news.
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/life/Vice+unit+targets+johns+workers/10769318/story.html
The article implies that he police are mainly targeting clients who are trying to pick up SPs who are soliciting the streets close to churches and schools. So instead of arresting the street sex workers lime they used to, it seems like they are setting up a sting more in line with the USA. Not much said about those clients who are meeting up in private places such as hotels or residences.
Ed Prutschi totally put the host in her place!
Here's another sickening piece coined the Moral Maze.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/search/all/source/the-arena/no-johns-arrested-in-ontario/4035041814001#4028561699001
To be clear, I don't defend C-36, but legislators don't answer to law enforcement officials. LE may be consulted for practical considerations. But, this isn't really about practical objections. The refusal to enforce is conceptual/principle based.
I don't like the idea of LE choosing which laws they want to enforce. That's a dangerous precedent.
If they/we truly believe that this is a bad law, the right thing to do would be prosecute it and prove it to be unjust in a court of law.
Source or authority?
Oddly, harm to communities is nowhere to be found in the oath sworn by police officers under the polices services act of ontario.
