(Canadian) MPs want to see solicitation legalized [View All]

It's been talked about for years, but now a parliamentary committee is recommending that Canada legalize the soliciting of prostitutes.

The Justice Subcommittee on Solicitation Laws spent the summer touring Canadian cities, looking into the troubles surrounding the world's oldest profession.

They're now drafting their report and have concluded that legalization would make street prostitution safer and crack down on pimps.

"It should be legalized and regulated for the sake of people who are working in the industry," says committee member and Vancouver Island Liberal MP Keith Martin.

Prostitution is already legal in Canada but actually soliciting sex is illegal. The committee wanted to know what that distinction meant for prostitutes themselves, and so talked to them, as well as police and community groups, to find out.

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