With that point of view, I guess it relates...
As long as the girls are not
forced to work as stripper or hooker, I love exotic entertainment!
I still don't understand on what grounds the City of Ottawa can ban contact dances and champagne rooms. Contact dances are legal, as per the Supreme Court. The City could restrict SC to certain sectors of town but prohibit a legally owned and operated business from operating in a way who doesn't infringe any laws is ridiculous. What will be next? Ice cream parlours won't be allowed to sell cherry ice cream because of it's sexual connotation?
For me, the City can stick their noses in things like this:
The smoking ban is in effect because smoke is toxic to anybody around a smoker, whatever the peoples around want it or not.
The City can restrict certain industrial activities because of the pollution or noise created.
The City can prohibit peoples from operating a farm downtown because of the smell and health risks involved.
They can prohibit a disco or bar in a residential area because of the noise and other nuisances.
They can say public buildings must have fire supressing system because it saves life.
Basically, if it have an effect on the peoples/homes around, or on something that is "common sense" and backed by undisputable facts (like fire supression systems) then, the City have a say, if not, shut up!
What are the problems with strip clubs? Nothing different than any bars! You don't like what's going on inside, you don't go! Plain and simple! I'm not interested in gay bars or in vegetarian restaurants so I go elsewhere but, I'll never ask the City to close them down!
As long as what's going on is legal, (not according to a bylaw, according to the Criminal Code and the Civil Code) the City have no business inside an SC or bar or anywhere else for that matter. No nuisance created, nobody will get hurt by the way the business is operating, no laws are broken, none of the City's business.
