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Related: About this forumCanadians considering legalizing prostitution, their government, not so much
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/prostitution-should-be-regulated-run-like-business-health-group-says-1.2871428Poll after poll in Canada indicate strong support for legalizing both Cannabis and Prostitution. The Government of Canada, which is somewhere socially to the Right of the US Tea Party, won't even consider it.
What do you think Canadians should or can do about it?
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Canadians considering legalizing prostitution, their government, not so much (Original Post)
Wibly
Dec 2014
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)1. I think Canadians should try to do better than the US does
at electing politicians who actually reflect the views of the constituency. But then I think the US should do better than we do at electing politicians who reflect the views of the constituency. (The human ones, I mean, not the corporate ones.)
I'm not sanguine that either population will actually do so.
Cal33
(7,018 posts)2. Whether prostitution is legalized or not, it is going on anyway. One big difference is that
when it is illegal, as it is now, the criminal elements get into the picture - and they can
make money, big-time. Also, some crooked officials are making money from it, too --
the same situation exists with drugs.
I think crooks are the ones who are really happy about all this phony pretense at sexual
morality! It's making them rich. Unfortunately, their fighting among each other, over
turf for example, also jacks up the murder rate.
Lyocell
(21 posts)3. It's legal already where I live in B.C