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Federal government to appeal prostitution ruling
April 26, 2012 Yosie Saint-Cyr Health and Safety, Human Resources
On April 25, 2012, the Federal government announced that it will appeal the Ontario Court of Appeal decision that struck down Canada’s prostitution laws as unconstitutional, specifically the Criminal Code provisions prohibiting “keeping or using a common bawdy house” and the “living off the avails of prostitution” provision…
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