New prostitution laws unlikely to be challenged soon, legal experts say

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Canada has new crimes on the books, thanks to the new prostitution legislation that took effect last weekend. But don't expect court challenges or big changes in enforcement any time soon.
Among the new offences in the Harper government's Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act is a prohibition against the advertisement of sexual services.
At the same time, though, individual sex workers won't be charged with advertising their services â?? part of the government's rationale that the purchase of sex should be illegal but not its sale.
So on Thursday, Toronto's weekly Now magazine, which usually contains about 10 pages of small ads for sexual services in the back pages, published as usual.
On Dec. 7, Alice Klein, the editor and CEO of Now, issued a statement stating, "We believe that running ads placed by sex workers themselves is still legal, and we are transitioning our business to comply with this new regulation."

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[QUOTE=Luckyme;651837]Canada has new crimes on the books, thanks to the new prostitution legislation that took effect last weekend. But don't expect court challenges or big changes in enforcement any time soon.
Among the new offences in the Harper government's Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act is a prohibition against the advertisement of sexual services.
At the same time, though, individual sex workers won't be charged with advertising their services â?? part of the government's rationale that the purchase of sex should be illegal but not its sale.
So on Thursday, Toronto's weekly Now magazine, which usually contains about 10 pages of small ads for sexual services in the back pages, published as usual.
On Dec. 7, Alice Klein, the editor and CEO of Now, issued a statement stating, "We believe that running ads placed by sex workers themselves is still legal, and we are transitioning our business to comply with this new regulation."

Read more -
[URL]http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/new-prostitution-laws-unlikely-to-be-challenged-soon-legal-experts-say-1.2870523?cmp=rss[/URL][/QUOTE]

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