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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 .
Canada inherited its criminal laws from England.The first recorded laws dealing with prostitution were in Nova Scotia in 1759, although as early as August 19, 1675 the Sovereign Council of New France convicted Catherine Guichelin, one of the King's Daughters, with leading a "life scandalous and dishonest to the public", declared her a prostitute and banished her from the walls of Quebec City ...
As noted by the US report, some Canadian NGOs such as Vancouver Rape Relief [43] believe that making prostitution legal is the best way to prevent human trafficking, forced prostitution, child prostitution and similar abusive activities. They argue that a system that allows legalized and regulated prostitution inherently takes business away ...
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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.
However the Court of Appeal reversed the decision on the grounds that this constituted prostitution (R. v. Mara, 27 O.R. (3d) 643). Furthermore, the court ruled that Parliament intended to abolish prostitution as a form of violence against women, and thus the dancing exceeded public acceptability.