MP licence fee increase to $10,000

[HaywoodJabloemy]

Remember the recent story in the Sun about the MPs and their `holistic` licences?

https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=54523

A story in today`s Star says they will be increasing the licence fees to $10,000.

Body rub parlours facing fee hike

 

[Cardinal Fang]

Ouch!

 

[Mao Tse Tongue]

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1086127812726&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968705899037

The hypocrisy is familiar: Body rub parlours are bad, but let's license 'em big time so we get the revenue from them, and then when we feel like shuttering them, we can.

The idea that $10k would deter the mob is laughable.

 

[TheNiteHwk]

Here is a link that works

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...726&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968705899037

 

[johnnyhandsome]

The idea that $10k would deter the mob is laughable.

The mobsters would probably ask the city if they'd like it in $ 100 bills or thousand dollar ones.

 

[TheNiteHwk]

IMO...

If they do pass this and raise the fee to 10grand there will be some negitive effect on the industry for all of us. Sure maybe it's true that some of the MPs will be able to pay the fee with no problem. Don't think for a second though that they will not pass this new costs on to the consumers(Read hobbyists). Room fees will go UP. Also some places will close down. That will not be good for people like myself in the advertising end of things.

 

[midLifeCrisis]

Grumbline here doesn't mean squat!

If you want to reduce the chance of this proposal being passed, write your city councillor.

Point out that the cost of the license will make it virtually impossible for an indendent, or a cooperative of independents, to operate within the law. Only major organizations will be able to afford these fees. Benoit & Millar estimate the average income of a sex-trade worker at $18,000 p.a.

If they can't be entrepreneurs in a small business and don't want to work for a big business, the most logical alternative is the streets. Tell your councillor that the choice is not between "pro-sex-trade" and "anti=sex-trade". The choice is between MPs and streetwalkers. Ask him or her to state clearly and publicly which he prefers.

 

[HaywoodJabloemy]

I don't think many city councillors will be eager to talk honestly about this subject. As stupid as it sounds, the official party line is still that MPs are not part of the sex trade, they are to provide only massages and no sexual service of any type (that includes HJ). Read what anti-prostitution Vancouver city councillor Lynne Kennedy says near the start of this article.

http://www.missingpeople.net/how_cities_'license'_off-street_hookers-june_16,_2002.htm

All MPs could be charged as bawdy houses if authorities thought it would be worth the effort, but they know it would only make the situation worse. The councillors aren't going to acknowledge that the city sells licences to violate the criminal code.

Wow, we have an amazingly hypocritical setup in this country, don't we? But I suppose it lets LE and politicians talk out of both sides of their mouths at the same time in the typical Canadian way that we seem to like.

In 2004 I find it difficult to envision that a huge number of MPAs would suddenly become street-walkers. If the rates for MPs increase to above those of incalls, then I would assume that side of the business would attract more customers. In the US, cracking down on MPs caused them to move into acupuncture and chiropractic clinics, and hair and sun tanning salons.

 

[Mao Tse Tongue]

I don't think many city councillors will be eager to talk honestly about this subject. As stupid as it sounds, the official party line is still that MPs are not part of the sex trade, they are to provide only massages and no sexual service of any type (that includes HJ). Read what anti-prostitution Vancouver city councillor Lynne Kennedy says near the start of this article.

http://www.missingpeople.net/how_cities_'license'_off-street_hookers-june_16,_2002.htm

This a great article, thanks

 

[midLifeCrisis]

In 2004 I find it difficult to envision that a huge number of MPAs would suddenly become street-walkers. If the rates for MPs increase to above those of incalls, then I would assume that side of the business would attract more customers. In the US, cracking down on MPs caused them to move into acupuncture and chiropractic clinics, and hair and sun tanning salons.

So tell your councillor that - that they will simply shift their cover business.

I suggest mentioning streetwalking as a major alternative because (i) they know they can't regulate streetwalkers and (ii) they get tons of neighborhood complaints about them.

 

[james t kirk]

Chill people, chill.

This is refering to places that call themselves "holistic health care".

The body rub palor licences are already about 7 grand I believe. (The last time I had a chat with Angelo, the owner of A and R Studio, that's what he told me.)

Besides, if memory serves me correct, the cost of a licence to sell hot dogs on the street down at Sky Dome is 10 grand too.

So, the cost is the same to stroke weinies, as opposed to barbeque them.

The only thing that "rubs" me the wrong way is that this is just another political stunt by the no-name politicians who are too stupid to have anything useful to say or do about oh say Transportation in the city, or the TTC, or property taxes. You know, the things that count.

This one bald fuck head that I read about in the sun today said that he was sitting in his car outside an MP on the Queensway when a girl came up to him and asked him if he wanted to come inside for a massage.

Soon as I read that, I knew he was a fucking liar and just another talking head trying to get his useless face in print in the paper.