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The Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics report Street Prostitution in Canada (1993) stated that police activity was mainly directed at the street level. Over 10,000 prostitution-related incidents were reported in 1992, of which 95% were communicating offences and 5% were bawdy-house and pimping offences.
Aggregate of articles pertaining to Canadian female prostitutes. See also: History of prostitution in Canada , Prostitution in Canada and Prostitution law in Canada . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Prostitutes in Canada .
In 2019, the Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking [9] launched the Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline, funded in part by PSC, to provide crisis response to people being trafficked and tip reporting. [10] The U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons placed Canada in "Tier 1" in 2017 [11] and 2023. [12]
In 2004, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) estimated that 600-800 persons are trafficked into Canada annually and that additional 1,500-2,200 persons are trafficked through Canada into the United States. [39] In Canada, foreign trafficking for prostitution is estimated to be worth $400 million annually. [40]
On March 20, 2007, Valerie Scott, Amy Lebovitch and Terri-Jean Bedford initiated an application (Bedford v.Canada) in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice seeking the constitutional invalidation of s.210 (bawdy house), s.212(1)(j) (living on the avails) and s.213(1)(c) (communicating for the purpose of prostitution) of the Criminal Code.
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A legal challenge to three of Canada's many prostitution laws was filed in Ontario Superior Court in March 2007. [2] In a decision handed down by Madam Justice Susan Himel in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on September 28, 2010, the prostitution laws were declared invalid. [ 3 ]
Canada (AG) v Bedford, 2013 SCC 72, [2013] 3 SCR 1101 is a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on the Canadian law of sex work. [2] [3] The applicants, Terri-Jean Bedford, Amy Lebovitch and Valerie Scott, argued that Canada's prostitution laws were unconstitutional. [4]