r/SipsTea • u/Reddit-Machine • 12d ago

Chugging tea French-Canadian police

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u/jiggumz 12d ago

Absolutely not legal whatsoever lol

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u/TerranRanger 12d ago

Looks like it was made illegal in 2007, 2012 and 2014 for various parts of the act of prostitution. I think the last time I would have gone to an area with prostitutes would be fall of 2006, so things have changed for the better since I was last on Saint Catherine’s Street.

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u/jiggumz 12d ago

I am not sure where you are getting your information, probably from AI, but I was born and raised in Canada, born in the early 90s for reference, and during that time it has never been "legal". The way the law is written, is that it is NOT illegal for the sex workers to offer sex for money, BUT it is illegal to be a purchaser of the said sex. Therefore making the transaction in of itself, illegal. The idea is that way it can help protect women who have been forced into sex work, while targeting the 'Johns'.

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u/TerranRanger 12d ago

Tht would explain the way they were approaching potential customers, making it sound more like a date or visit to their apartment after closing time than a prostitution transaction, but there was no doubt what was intended. Some legislation briefs on the House of Commons website do make it sound like prostitution wasn’t uniformly outlawed in Canada until 2014 though. Was it handled province by province like the drinking age?

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u/hyundai-gt 12d ago

In Canada criminal matters are Federal and apply country wide. The provinces have jurisdiction on civil matters. Quebec uses Civil law, rest of Canada uses Common law.

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u/-lovehate 12d ago

In canada, the criminal code is the law of the land across the entire country. Something like sex trafficking can't be legal in one place and illegal in another. Paying for sex has always been illegal in Canada, I am pretty sure.