This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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Renowned sex workers’ rights activist, Terri-Jean Bedford, urged Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Toronto Mayor John Tory to reject the federal government’s new anti-prostitution laws and refuse to impose it. Bedford made the request while receiving an award honoring her 20 years of struggle for sex workers’ rights. Bedford received the second annual Ontario Civil Liberties Association award in Ottawa on Friday, which applauded her key role in a court battle that last year struck down the country’s prostitution laws.
The new law brought in by the Conservative government, Bill C-36, places the legal duty on clients, rather than sex workers, with the goal of shutting down an industry that the government describes as inherently degrading and destructive to women. According to Bedford, the new law will keep the industry underground, where workers can’t get legal protection. She explained on Friday that “the new law is worse than the old law,” adding that “it’s so unconstitutional that it can’t be enforced. It would be criminal for any government to enforce this law.” Bedford stressed that Wynne and Tory should protect the lives of sex workers by instructing Crown prosecutors and police not to enforce it. She stated that “I think it’s really important to test the integrity of our premier and our new mayor, John Tory.” Bedford alleged that “do they want to continue to see women sacrificed?”
Bedford pointed out that Wynne, who is a lesbian, should sympathize with the plight of sex workers since “Premier Wynne, for example, knows all about gay bashing.” She said that “it used to be a sport on a Saturday evening for the good old boys. And the sex-trade workers, and the gay sextrade workers alike fought side by side with the gay rights activists, and won, so I think it’s only fair that Premier Wynne show us what she’s made of.”
As an outscomment_IDer, (American), looking in, it seems that your government is walking backwards. Do these politicals really think they can regulate this industry. It’s been around forever in every single society, country, city, town and village, since the beginning. If you legalize it in a city, it will still not go away in the city next door where it is illegal. It is part of human nature. It is not going away because some politician in Ottawa, Washigton or Stockholm says it should. Why can’t the politicians in government realize this. Legalize it, protect it, tax it.