Prostitution is not illegal in Canada. But one article in the Canadian Criminal Code criminalizes ‘communication for the purposes of prostitution’. It is therefore forbidden by law to solicit a client offering sexual services. The Police Morality Squad has operations in the street where double agents pretend to be clients. To accuse a sex worker, the police need to have proof that it is the sex worker who solicited.
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he Soliciting Law (article 213 of the Canadian Criminal Code): ‘To communicate with another person, in a public place, with the objective of practicing prostitution.’ Soliciting is a summary conviction. In legal language that means: ‘an infringement of the law punishable upon declaration of guilt by summary proceedings.’
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