Interest View From Chief of Police

[vwdub]

20,000 sexual acts a day in the GTA (a pure guess!) makes 50 a year look pretty small especially when most of the 50 will be pimps, public offers and trafficking.

Bingo. I hope that at least 50 "underage, at risk, forced, trafficked" related John/pimps are charged.

 

[rgkv]

What he said was every community has it's own standards as to what would be enforced...

 

[TeasePlease]

50 is a random made up number, but in reality, the odds are likely very small. Like STIs, it's a risk that exists. Some are more tolerant than others.

 

[MPAsquared]

No it doesn't. Prostitution wasn't and isn't illegal. Anyone can sell it. You just can't buy it now.

What I find shaky is people who take comfort in municipal bylaws trumping the crim code.

A municipality is perfectly within its rights to license a business that wants to engage in legal (non-illegal) commerce. It doesn't license buyers, and it doesn't care whether a particular business is economically viable.

It just strikes me as a ginormous risk to patronize a business that is licensed to provide a sexual service. Although, I suppose some people go to bars to sip club soda....

Ya, I'm curious to see what happens in cities like brampton, Edmonton, etc.

Yes....enforcement probably won't change much.......how ladies advertise will and who gets charged is changing. Are you suggesting that this isn't something us "johns" on this board shouldn't be thinking about?
Also, he indicated that there wasn't agreement amongst the Police Chiefs in this association on how to interpret the new law. As far as I know, this Association doesn't dictate to their members how to enforce the law.....they just share ideas on how they individually may proceed. So, how the force in London responds may be different than the force in Hamilton, or Toronto etc.

Duh.