Do the Conservatives support deregulation/legalization? Study adding sex work tojobs bank

[krystalclare]

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...corts-should-be-added-to-job-bank-ottawa?bn=1


Strippers, escorts should be added to job bank: Ottawa

October 13, 2010
Richard J. Brennan

OTTAWA—The Conservative government wants to help unemployed Canadians find careers as strippers and for-hire escorts.
According to a draft Oct. 1 memo obtained by the Star, Ottawa has determined these careers once considered “morally offensive” should be put on the federal government’s Job Bank, which is also available for use by the provinces.
The surprise memo from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada has set a few tongues wagging among those wondering how these careers suddenly became respectable, and how Conservatives could allow this to happen.
“This is such a contradiction for the holier than thou family values gang to all of a sudden endorse an escort service as a legitimate occupation for unemployed Canadian women,” NDP MP Pat Martin said.
Terri-Jean Bedford, the dominatrix who went to court and got Canada’s prostitution laws thrown out, said these are legitimate occupations and “it’s high time that people stop being so judgmental about another person’s occupation.”
“There are a lot of unsavory occupations that I would never apply for. Soldier being one of them and politician probably being another,” Bedford said.
The job posting change is at odds with the Conservatives’ outrage over the recent federal court decision stating that Canada’s prostitution violated the Constitution. The government immediately appealed the decision, saying “prostitution is a problem that harms individuals and communities.”
“This is appalling activity by our government because what they are really doing is promoting the subjugation of woman for the most part,” Charles McVety, the president of Canadian Christian College, told the Star.
“It is also hypocritical that this would this would be done under a Conservative government,” he said.
The draft policy, which has yet to be implemented, stated that the following occupations will “be acceptable for posting on Job Bank”:
[SIZE=+2]•[/SIZE] Exotic dancer, erotic dancer, nude dancer, striptease dancer and table dancer.
[SIZE=+2]•[/SIZE] Escort, chat line agent, phone agent for personal services and telephone agent for personal services.
Many of these occupations in a 2003 memo from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRDC) were described as being “morally offensive by the majority of Canadians.”
It is not the first time that strippers have caused problems for the federal government of the day.
In 2004, the opposition called for then immigration minister Judy Sgro’s resignation over her office’s decision to extend a residence permit to a Romanian stripper, and Ottawa’s controversial program to allow foreign strippers to get special work visas.
“The Conservatives were all over that,” recalled McVety, “that’s why I’m a little incredulous that a Conservative government would do this.”

 

[Wassim Elia]

Cosidering that "phone line agent" is still illegal as an "avails" occupation, this is a little surprising. I wonder if the party brass will shut this down in the next couple of days.

 

[Whatever Dude]

Give them by the weekend I say. They are too busy spending our money on foolish things :.

 

[Nev]

In the meantime the Attorney General is starting to put pressure on Canada's version of Craigslist to do away with the erotic section.

 

[Blondie B.]

I thought a decision was just made on legal prostitution in Canada. What's up with that?

I'm a conservative...the kind that doesn't want government involved in much of anything. I don't want them telling people what to do in their bedrooms or how to live their lives. I don't want them "saving" the downtrodden or whatever.