The sweeping decision will take effect in one year, inviting Parliament to try to come up with some other way to regulate the sex trade if it chooses to do so. She said many prostitutes had no choice but to work in the sex trade, and the law should not make their work more dangerous. Another former prostitute, Valerie Scott said the Supreme Court had for the first time in Canada declared those in the sex trade to be persons. Prostitution is legal in much of Europe and Latin America, and brothels are legal in numerous countries including the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland.
But questions have begun to be raised, partly because of human trafficking. The idea of criminalizing the purchase of sex and of pimping follows what has become known as the Swedish model and then more broadly the Nordic model as Norway followed suit. Evangelical Fellowship of Canada lawyer Don Hutchinson said the evidence was that the decriminalization of prostitution leads to increased rates of human trafficking.
He said his organization had last week submitted to Parliament a report urging an adaptation of the Swedish model. Discover Thomson Reuters. Directory of sites. United States. Randall Palmer. Dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford, one of three current and former sex workers who initiated a challenge to Canada's prostitution laws, flashes a victory sign while speaking with journalists at the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa December 20,
