Which political party is most likely to decriminalize prostitution?

[krazyplayer]

In light of the looming federal election I started to look into this.
The conservatives are fighting that decriminalizing case by sexworkers, but some conservatives (well one) wants to make a red light district. No one mentions prostitution or sex work except the NDP who support sex worker rights.
In your opinion which party is most likely to decriminalize all the willing adult participants?

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Obviously the ones that lean Left or far Left

 

[Queen]

The Marijuana Party of Canada

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[Brill]

None of them, they're all divided.

It takes the Supreme Court striking down laws as unconstitutional to get any progress these days.

 

[wet_suit_one]

None of them, they're all divided.

It takes the Supreme Court striking down laws as unconstitutional to get any progress these days.

I concur.

To expect our political process to produce any kind of real change, especially in controversial areas, is unreasonable given their record over the last 10 years. They leave it to the courts to decide because they refuse to decide themselves. Status quo or nothing is the motto (essentially).

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Speaking of this, isnt the judge's ruling supposed to come down next month sometime??

 

[JustSex]

I voted Bloc because a similar issue came up and they were the only party that said it was none of the governments business to tell people how to run their lives. [So we haven't a hope of seeing it come to pass]

If parliament is dissolved before it is addressed, I think the temporary reprieve on the prostitution law will expire. Maybe by the time parliament does reconvene, people will realize that the God didn't release a scourge and let the law die permanently.

Sadly, I'll bet a large number of members of all three parties have enjoyed the benefits of an SP/MP at some time but do not want the possible wrath from the religious (but very vocal) minority. They are politicians after all [aka gutless, sniveling wimps].

 

[Mencken]

Somwhat ironically, the NDP has a very conservative morality and religious streak....much of their support in early days was religious (so called liberal christianity). So not sure how they would come down on liberalizing sex laws.

 

[skidoo64]

None of them. Way to sensitive. It would be the death of them. They'll let the courts do the dirty work and then they'll figure something out from there.

 

[fuji]

I ignored the greens and bloc because they can't or won't win in my riding. Of the rest the conservatives are most likely to increase criminalization, the ndp most likely to go for a swedish model that criminalizes only customers, so I chose liberal although I recognize they too are split on the issue--but the question was most likely so that's my answer.

 

[Aardvark154]

Obviously the ones that lean Left or far Left

It is not at all "obviously," given that the majority of left or far left women's rights groups are opposed. Thus far no political party has supported the idea.

Now it is doubtless true that some senior politicians in the NDP and Liberal Party would support the idea, but I rather suspect that they would be eternally grateful to have the Courts take it off the plate.

 

[dreamblade]

Yeah, no politician with a promising career will touch this issue except to say "it's bad, m'kay?"

Face it, we here have a rather privileged POV of the industry not shared by greater population. If the politicos want more than just the john/ho vote, they'll stay quiet is the prevalent attitude.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

I rather suspect that they would be externally grateful to have the Courts take it off the plate

Isnt that true democracy though, the politicans are too scared to lose votes to take a definitive stance on the issue

 

[Zeus444]

Libertarian party of Canada, even though they'll never win and a few of their ideas are pants on head retarded it's who I vote for. Just can't stand the rest of them.

 

[peteeey]

Not the Conservatives. They're too anal.

 

[alb]

None of the above! No Canadian political party has the balls nor the appetite to decriminalize prostitution.

 

[rld]

Most of the answers in the poll are meaningless, in that only two of the parties listed stand any realistic chance of forming a government, and neither of them are interested in doing anything on this issue.

 

[oldjones]

Where was none of the above? As with abortion, desegregation and a host of other difficult issues—watch for right to die—the pols have discovered it's easier to let the judges do it than take a stand on principle themselves. Trouble is then they turn around and whine about the decision and polarize everyone instead of thoughtfully drafting a statute that does the bit of business they want without infringing on everybody's rights.

But as the Cons are already appealing the inch of progress made in Ontario, I can tell you what party it will NOT be.

 

[freedom3]

The liberals are our best bet. They even let homosexuals get married. It doesn't get more liberal than that.

 

[T.O.tourist]

Where was none of the above?

That gets my vote.