tomfool

Happy Birthday.

I saw all of that. It really has very little to do with the question at hand. As Peter McKay said in the McLean's article it was certainly very carefully examined by a whole department of lawyers. Is it constitutional? Who knows? Many smart lawyers will disagree on that point. It will be decided , probably by the supreme court a few years from now. Until that , starting later this year it will be the land.

Very true. Those who think there will be major changes to this bill don't know much about how our system works or how the current government conducts itself.

Pretty hard to believe that it has not been scrutinized. It was , after all drafted by the Justice department which is full of lawyers and Peter MacKay is a lawyer himself. Even if it is not constitutional it will likely be in force for several years before that ruling is made.

It has been , as far as I understand, legal in Canada to see a lady in ones hotel room. This is explicitly no so with the new law. Many stuck mostly to this activity in in the past. It is going to be not worth the risk for many travelling businessmen to take the risk , no matter how much care is taken with carefully worded ads etc. Each potential client will have their own tolerance of risk. The threat of a criminal record and jail time is very serious. Too high for many.

Unfortunately, I think that clause needs to be put in context with the rest of the bill. It seems this is part of their approach to not prosecute providers but everyone else involved. You will not be prosecuted but anyone that takes money for, or otherwise benefits from your ad will be prosecuted. Also the government has the right to take your add down.

No communication in any manner. No advertising. No payment for services period. When this bill passes Canada will go from one of the more lenient countries to one of the most strict , possibly the most strict Western democracy.

Maybe hard to prove but any such overseas advertising would be very small compared to what we see today, if at all. Additional Comments: I expect that the professional journalists have lawyers on staff to help with the interpretation.

I guess the catch on the advertising, even by independents , is that it may be legal for them to advertise but not legal for anyone to accept payment for such advertisement. A catch 22 of sorts.

My reading , for what it is worth, says that Savannahs is correct. An independent is free to advertise. Agencies it seems would not. It would be a crime for anyone to communicate in any way with the independent about the advertisement but the advertisement it seems will be legal.

No different than now for a provider. For a customer will be illegal to communicate anywhere. from the draft bill "286.1 Everyone who , in any place , obtains for consideration, or communicates with anyone for purpose of obtaining for consideration the sexual services of a person ..."

Hopefully you are right. I am not a lawyer so no sense in me trying to read the bill. I was going by what the National Post published. "The new law makes it an offence for the first time in Canada to purchase sexual services, or to communicate in any place for that purpose. It makes it an offence to receive a material benefit from sexual services and it prohibits the advertising of sexual services in newspapers or online." I guess we will need to hear more in the next few days but it seems to me to boil down to the fact that it will be illegal to pay for sex period. A big step backward in my opinion.

No advertising? No communicating anywhere? Purchasing illegal without exception? Am I reading this wrong? I expect there will be changes before it becomes law but will be surprised if they are more than superficial.

Guarantee is the wrong word. It is an offer subject to circumstances including but not limited to the hobbyists ability to do so on that particular occasion. It is being offered as a possibility not a guarantee.

I cannot imagine BBB becoming popular on IOS or Android with all the the options already available. Unfortunately this once great Canadian company has reached the end of the line as a smartphone company. They were way too late jumping on the touch phone bandwagon. The only real value left seems to be their patents.