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This caused considerable public concern and municipalities' attempts to preempt the law by passing more restrictive bylaws (Uniform Law Conference of Canada 1999). The Ontario Government did contact the Federal Government regarding amending the law to make such actions clearly illegal. [9] [non-primary source needed] This was not pursued.
The report also stated that in the period 1991–1995, 63 known prostitutes were murdered (5% of all women killed in Canada). [13] Separate reports have not been published since, but included in Crime Statistics in Canada. Data from the 2007 report show 5,679 offences in 2006 (17/100,000 population), and 4,724 in 2007 (14).
The women attendees had the right to expect female officers would search the premises under Canada's Charter of Rights which protects people from searches by those of the opposite sex. [2] The Women's Bathhouse Committee filed a complaint to the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 2001 which was settled with Toronto Police Services Board in 2004 ...
In this respect, Dickson disagreed with the opinion of another justice that the legislative objective addressed the broader questions of the exploitation, degradation and subordination of women. The court must assess the proportionality of the legislation to the objectives; in particular any infringement of rights must be the minimum to achieve ...
“In some cases, it can be illegal to send a sexually explicit image, for example, if the person depicted is under 18 years old or did not consent to it being shared,” Meropol explains.
In Canada, s.173 of the Criminal Code [10] prohibits "indecent acts". There is no statutory definition in the Code of what constitutes an indecent act (other than that the exposure of the genitals for a sexual purpose to anyone under 16 years of age), [ 11 ] so the decision of what state of undress is "indecent", and thereby unlawful, is left ...
(a) shows or reads obscene text, images or words to a child, or makes a child listen or read obscene text, images or words, (b) places, displays or shows obscene content in places which children can see, read or hear (c) sells or rents obscene content in a way that may aims to hide the actual content (d) sells or rents obscene content in places ...
In Canada, s.173 of the Criminal Code [30] prohibits "indecent acts". [31] There is no statutory definition in the Code of what constitutes an indecent act, other than the exposure of the genitals and/or female nipples for a sexual purpose to anyone under 16 years of age.