Canada moves to close human trafficking loophole. Strip clubs threaten to recruit at high schools.

http://www.canada.com/mobile/iphone/story.html?id=6992702

Adult entertainment lobby group threatens to recruit strippers at Vancouver high schools Thursday, July 26, 2012

If the Vancouver School Board won’t let the adult entertainment industry recruit strippers from within its high schools, industry reps say they’ll stand out on the street and hand out flyers.

“As far as recruiting 18-year-olds, that’s a market that has been untouched,” said Tim Lambrinos, executive director of the Adult Entertainment Association of Canada (AEAC).

In early June, Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced the government won’t be giving out temporary work visas for foreign strippers.

“Canadians have told us they want us to put a stop to foreign workers entering Canada to work in businesses where there are reasonable grounds to suspect a risk of sexual exploitation,” wrote Alexis Pavlich, spokesperson for the ministry, in an email. “It is disgraceful that Tim Lambrinos would now intentionally target underage Canadian high school youth.”

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http://m.theepochtimes.com/n2/opinion/mp-joy-smith-responds-to-sex-industrys-threats-of-recruitment-271401.html

MP Joy Smith Responds to Sex Industry’s Threats of Recruitment

The war against human traffickers that prey on our youth is now out in the open. Those profiting from the recruitment of Canadian women and girls into the sex trade have gone public through newspapers with their strategy of targeting Canadian high school students since they can no longer import young women from abroad to sexually exploit.

It is no surprise that the Adult Entertainment Association of Canada (AEAC) is upset with the recent initiatives to close a loophole of human trafficking in Canada. A source of income for strip club owners is being cut off and they are angry. Yet teachers and parents are also furious that the AEAC would target their youth for sexual exploitation.

Tim Lambrinos, executive director of the AEAC, claims he represents 38,000 strippers, 28 percent of whom are students. He portrays his role as helping youth pay for university, but in reality he is the spokesperson for an industry that makes millions through luring students into the adult sexual entertainment industry.

"Prostitution, strip clubs, and massage parlours all share a common thread—the owners are making big bucks through the sexual “services” of young victims."

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