I really appreciate the work thats going on through your community partners. I was on city council in the eighties, and right through the whole thing, in the west end, and then Mount Pleasant, and then to Strathcona, to the downtown east side, weve been through all of that. I think a lot of residents groups have come a long way in the complexity of what theyre dealing with here. So I really appreciate your comments. 23 cm Availability: Items available for loan: 202.162 1. Whats targeted by that legislation is exploiting the women who are working in the sex trade. If they are not being victimized from the other end by the criminal law, then they have no need for what we call pimps. Somebody sharing the family home with a woman or a person working in the sex trade is not someone we typically think of as a pimp. I also dont send people out in the middle of the night, when the clients may be consisting mainly of people who have been drinking a great deal or using drugs. If anything sounds suspicious about the situation, I wont send anybody out at all. I often like to have the transaction at a place where I can be present and make the introduction, and therefore meet that client directly, see him, and establish some kind of rapport. Im always interested in establishing a regular clientele who will come back many times. The Chair: Yes, if we could have those responses be rather to the point and brief;. Youve exceeded your time, Mr Ménard. 
Certainly the municipal role around zoning and licensing is already there. I think the catch-22 about that is you will have different zoning and licensing in different parts of the country. In Vancouver, obviously, were very aware of the tragedy of Pickton farm. There has been significant discussion. We do fund PACE and WISH. Were trying to get the 247 going. Weve worked on the mobile van. The police have done a wonderful job of training street sex workers in self-defence. Weve taken various initiatives so that peoples understanding of this is that its something thats here and we need to make sure the conditions are better. We are particularly concerned about children in the sex trade who are never there by informed choice. In dealing with children especially, there needs to be room for innovation and the ability to protect children who are at high risk of being sexually exploited or who are already involved in the sex trade. This may mean facilitating greater cooperation between law enforcement officers, the judicial system, social services, provincial ministries, and the local community to ensure that children in the sex trade are given many ways out Mr. St. Aubin, you have told us that you dial 9-1-1 when there are prostitutes in the school yards. How quickly do police officers respond to citizens calls? Many prostitutes have told us that they find it very difficult to obtain assistance when they have been victims of violence. Does the police provide you with good service? 
Recueil darticles de presse internationale sur léchec de la légalisation et réglementation de la prostitution en Australie et Nouvelle Zélande : Evidence-SSLR 38-1- No. 18-House of Commons of Canada Lancien patron du 36, quai des Orfèvres raconte la Brigade mondaine 2014 facteurs qui incitent les jeunes à commettre des vols.. If we legislatively recognize prostitution as violence toward women, we would stop men from buying women, and we would stop men from profiting from the sale of them. Canada needs to look to Sweden concerning solicitation law reform. In Sweden, prostitution is officially acknowledged as a form of male violence against women and children. One cornerstone of its policies against prostitution is its focus on its root cause: the recognition that without mens demand for and use of women and girls for sexual exploitation, the global prostitution industry would not be able to flourish and expand. Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America. 2 vols. New York: D. Appleton, 1875; Kimball, G. Aztec Homosexuality: The Textual Evidence. Journal of Homosexuality. 26:1 December 1993. Histoire du cinéma clandestin des maisons closes 2004 Everybody agrees that reducing violence and harm faced by sex workers is critical, and everybody agrees that improving the safety of sex workers and local communities is really important. I think people agree that moving sex trade on-street prostitution from one community to another is useless Ms. Paule Brunelle: Ms. Lake, we were told that the women working as escorts appear to have an easier life, that they chose to go into this trade and that it was lucrative. I understand that any city would prefer to have licensed practitioners and places of business operating properly and safely under their domain. The alternative would be unregulated and unprofessional purveyors of various products and services potentially creating a poor environment for consumers to be protected and served well. I submit that those who are in a business such as the sex trade, who cannot openly have a place of business and still be legal, and who also cannot solicit business are effectively being obstructed unlawfully from earning their livelihood. Prostitution itself is a legal activity. I also attended her trial. I was sitting in the gallery, and I heard two crown witnesses give the judge quite a distorted view of the neighbourhood. Essentially they were attributing all of the nuisance factors in the neighbourhood to what Jamie was doing. I knew that wasnt true, because there was a drug dealer right next to my building, and I could see from my window exactly what was going on. That drug dealer was there before Jamie had set up, and I testified and explained to the judge that, in my view, what she was doing was actually taking most of the nuisance factors away. Ill let you ask you more questions on that, if you wish Ms. Anna Marie White Research Analyst, Focus on the Family Canada Merci pour votre contribution à laplanissement de la courbe. La période de gratuité Premium est terminée, vous pouvez continuer à nous aider en restant chez vous et en profitant de plus de 175 000 vidéos Premium provenant de plus de 2000 studios The research has been done there. We know we could turn the taps down a lot. Im also doing a lot of work around the homelessness issue. Looking at the international research on that, roughly 40 of all homeless people, adult and youth, were in government day care as children. Our care system across Canada, as far as the child welfare system is concerned, needs to be revamped. For most of our young people who are on the streets, especially in the sex trade, I see them as trauma victims. Theyve been traumatized as young people through sexual, emotional, and physical abuse. People who have been traumatized have a hard time giving up power. Our system demands lots of conformity, and where young ones cant or dont conform, they get labelled as resistant, untreatable, and dispensable, disposable. I have to be clear, as I think Patricia was, were talking about street prostitution. We dont have the expertise to talk about indoor prostitution.