http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Canada.htm

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... serial killer Terry Driver, admitted he used prostitutes from the time he was 15, when he gave food to homeless children in exchange for sex. He also admitted that he used three women who were later found dead. [Holly Horwood, "Is Terry Driver a Serial Killer?" The Province, 17 October 1997)

Organized crime by motorcycle gangs, such as ‘Hell’s Angels,’ are involved in drug trafficking and prostitution. More than 50 people have been killed in Quebec over four years, in a turf war between the Hell's Angels and a rival gang called the Rock Machine ("Canada plans to take on biker gangs," United Press International, 23 April 1998)

A cocaine epidemic is closely linked with Yellowknife's prostitution and pornography trade. A group of girls were selling sex for cocaine. A man faces trial for trafficking cocaine as well as possessing about 1300 pornographic videos, including some with local women. Alcohol and drug use was linked to child sexual abuse and trauma. (..; Child sexual abuse called root of drug abuse in North," Canadian Press, 26 October 1997)
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Two missing Calgary girls, aged 15 and 16, recruited into prostitution by a sex trade ring on Vancouver's streets have been rescued and safely returned home. A key factor in solving the case was the use of the Deter and Identify Sex trade Consumers (DISC) computer system, developed by two Vancouver police officers.

http://www.catwinternational.org/factbook/Canada.php

IN DEPTH: ABORIGINAL CANADIANS
Saskatchewan's justice reform commission
CBC News Online | July 02, 2004

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/aboriginals/saskreport.html

The average prostitute has more claim to payment for her services than the average financier whose living is built on raping the poor of their money.

I have spent years in the company of Bay Street types. These people who drive around in fancy cars, couldn't be bothered giving alms to the poor. They would rather spend money on the latest luxury than given a penny to people who are not like them.

It is a fact that the average financier is rich, white, male, and conservative. They are the cause of much of the misery of people who are not white, male, and conservative. They are invariably horribly rude when they think they can be with impunity.

Instead of being concerned about where adult services should be located, we should be concerned where these rich types congregate. They should be far away from more decent human beings who care about others, and not exclusively about how much money they can take from others.

I'm guessing that Flaherty is pushing for this; he'll do anything to get people off EI.....

Excellent way to clean the streets and also toward a much safer method for those women to apply their trade.

I for one do not want my child to see such sights on the local streets, so this idea (not uncommon to other parts of the world), is a great idea to clean everything up.

Legalizing prostitution and marijuana, will make our streets safer and will help to save millions of dollars in policing, court services, and corrections. Good for you Saskatoon (I never thought it would happen in such a conservative province).

It makes more sense to drive this activity underground where there is not control and criminals benifit more than anyone else.

Sweden has had the best results in decreasing prostitution. They have done so through laws that target the johns with heavy penalties while ignoring the prostitutes. Don't criminalize the providers, but the consumers. A counterpoint is Denmark, which took the route of simply legalizing prostitution. The incidence of prostitution, gang involvement and human sex-trafficking have skyrocketed.

Prostitution...who gets the money? Women (and men?) are commodities to make someone rich. The result?

I need money.
I need sex.
I need someone to make me feel good.
I need attention.
I need...
I need...
I need...

You need a better self-concept.

Ontario has OLG (a commodity via greed) to make money
Saskatchewan is to have red-light districts (via a commodity) to make money?

People wake up! Your life is not about you. Your life is about those around you.
You want to see the government? ...take a look at those hooked on gambling.
You want to see a parent? ...take a look at his/her child
You want to see a child? ...take a look at his/her parent.
You want to see a teacher? ...take a look at the student.

You want to see Saskatoon? ....take a look at the leaders proposing a 'red-light' district.

Grow-up Canada

I suspect that the vote will be held right after the usual prayer breakfast. In many respects where it comes to Christian men and the protection of women these should be refered to as preyer breakfasts.

They don't allow strippers.... But prostitution is okay? What?

Flesh trade targets natives: Young Aboriginal women used as a sex commodity in cities across Canada

On the street corners of Canada’s largest cities, thousands of women are bought and sold every night. Most of them, experts say, are aboriginal and an alarming number are trafficked.

“There’s a total myth that Aboriginal women either consent to or are born into the sex trade,” says Jo-Ann Daniels, interim executive director for the Metis Settlements General Council in Edmonton. “The average age of Aboriginal girls who are human trafficked is between seven and 12 years old.”

“It is Aboriginal girls and women who are specifically targeted in this country to be trafficked, in such huge numbers that it does not compare to any other population,” Daniels says. “We believe that it is the root source of Aboriginal women ever being involved in the sex trade.

We believe that Aboriginal women and Aboriginal girls have been domestically trafficked now for, I would say probably since the ’50s when there began to be Aboriginal movement into urban areas or there were more contacts between Aboriginal communities and towns.”

Aboriginal trafficking has been identified as a unique problem in government reports, non-governmental newsletters and at human trafficking conferences.

http://www.missingjustice.ca/2009/08/flesh-trade-targets-natives-young-aboriginal-women-used-as-a-sex-commodity-in-cities-across-canada/

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www.findmaisyandshannon.com

"A United Nations committee wants Canada to explain why law enforcement agencies have failed to deal with the disappearance and murder of Aboriginal women. The U-N Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has issued its concluding observations after reviewing Canada's work on a U-N convention to wipe out discrimination. Chairwoman Shelagh Day says Canada has one year to report on how it will boost social assistance rates and address the lack of progress on the files of missing and murdered women. The Committee is also urging Canada to hold an inquiry into the 511 missing or murdered Aboriginal women and to resolve problems with the law enforcement system."

While working in Indian Government in Ottawa from 1986-94 -I remember when
the World Council of Indigenous Peoples ( WCIP) organized conferences
worldwide to gather concerns to present to United Nations some of which
were:

1) melting icecaps & all that entails;

2) clearcutting of forests & the ensuing mining corporations = alcohol,
disease, porn, prostitution to the surrounding Indigenous peoples before
the development of hydro-electic dams & total destruction of the land &
dispora of the people;

3) the capture & release of Indigenous peoples for blood samples;

4) the return of artifacts & bones in museums or at the very minimum the
agreement to see "who " were in the drawers...

5) & the disappearance of Native women in the Americas.
(www.missingnativewomen.org)

Since I worked in Indian gov't I knew about the "Highway of Tears" in
northern B.C. where Aboriginal women have disappeared so far with no real
investigation by the RCMP. (www.highwayoftears.ca/missingbclist.htm)

Then again my dad informed me about Canada's "sextrade" in grade six as a
precaution against hitchhiking let alone getting "caught" by gangs of
Canadian guys "lookin' for some fun".
(http://www.ajic.mb.ca/volume.html...see Vol.2)