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Tories "NIX" 2010 Olympics Sex Trade Co-op
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by Barry Artiste | February 8, 2008 at 07:15 am
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One can only imagine the scenario " Transgendered Tiffany, 2010 Olympic Sponsor to the Stars" or perhaps The Olympic rings emblazoned on videos " 2010 Olympic Hookers Gone WIld" . Legalising Prostitution or not will not stop the swarms of Sex trade workers to British Columbia, opening legal brothels will more or less turn these brothels into "Sex Hostels" for Sex trade workers from all over the world in order to make a quick buck.
No one seems to realise the seriousness of the situation if legalised, increased crime, human trafficking, drugs and rampant prostitution along with a massive influx of people to British Columbia will severely stretch Police and Health services to the limit, legitimizing it, will only exacerbate an already growing problem allowing a free for all of Olympic proportions. Who will ultimately pay for all this insanity? You, the BC Taxpayers, while the profiteers from parts unknown will be gleefully counting their ill gotten wads of cash as they board the airplane back home. Meanwhile the prostitutes after servicing thousands of their World Wide Clientele on an Olympic Scale, will be used and spent and left to our ever suffering Health Care Services to treat, medicate, placate, and left on their own.
My Final Thought
British Columbia's citizens who want legalised brothels need to give their "Heads a Serious Shake". Legalised prostitution will not stop sex trade workers from acquiringillegal drugs, it will just provide a legitimate means in which to pay for it.
Tories say no to "co-op" Olympics brothelChristina Montgomery,
The ProvincePublished: Friday, February 08, 2008Key federal Conservative ministers said yesterday they don't expect Vancouver to be flooded with prostitutes during the 2010 Olympics - and there's no chance the Tories will approve local plans for a "co-op" brothel timed for the Games.
"We are not in the business of legalizing brothels, and we have no intention of changing any of the laws relating to prostitution in this country,"Justice Minister Rob Nicholson told the Commons status of women committee in Ottawa. A majority of the committee had recommended federal prostitution laws be changed to stop charging prostitutes and start prosecuting only those procuring sex, or exploiting the prostitutes - pimps and bawdy-house owners, for example.
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day conceded that major events like the Games have been a traditional magnet for prostitutes. But he told the committee that tight border security would keep foreign hookers out, and tighter policing would prevent Canadian sex workers from swamping the city.
Neither ministerial pronouncement appeared to faze Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan, who has said in the past he had an "open mind" about a local proposal to open a brothel that would provide a safe worksite for prostitutes during the Games.Sullivan told The Province yesterday his focus is helping women who turn to prostitution to finance their addictions. He said that programs addressing mental illness and chronic addiction would help such "survival sex-trade workers" more than legalizing the trade they turned to to "find money through degrading themselves."
The B.C. Coalition of Experiential Communities, which includes male, female and transgendered sex-trade workers, has said it wanted federal support to open a co-op brothel. Spokeswoman Susan Davis said the group was looking for an exemption along the lines given for the Insite safe-injection site in Vancouver.
Nicholson told the committee the government's opposition to the plan is total.
Liberal MP Maria Minna said later she was disappointed by Nicholson's refusal to consider changing laws on prostitution.
"He doesn't get it," the Toronto MP said. "The men don't get charged. Who gets the record and gets thrown in the clink? It's the woman. She's the victim."
- with a file from Canwest
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at 07:26 on February 8th, 2008
Global events like the Olympics are serious red-letter days for anybody selling anything that you can't get at a regular store.
(I'm all out of VANOC/prostitution cracks. Sorry)
at 07:42 on February 8th, 2008
Trust me, it is going to get worse as 2010 approaches.
Washington state already approached me directly in assisting in the training of their military reserves in spotting drug smugglers who will be coming across our borders.
at 02:35 on May 15th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 05:21 on May 15th, 2008
Thank you Azzay, your comments are very much appreciated
at 14:56 on November 19th, 2008
As stated in this article, the Olympics will bring an influx of sex-workers to Vancouver in 2010 whether the trade is legal or not. The proposed co-op would work to increase the security and health of these sex-workers thus lessening the pressure on the police and especially the health services. The police could focus on the actual dangerous people in this equation, the men who are abusive to the prostitutes they visit. The question is, who are we trying to protect?