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Originally Posted by blankall
They are reverting to the previous system. Once you create a system it's hard to shut it down instantly. The Netherlands have scaled back on their sex market in a huge way though. The city has even gone as far as privately purchasing the licensed establishments so they can shut them down:
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Closing a few windows is not reverting to the previous system, as some of the literature quoted by the Bedford Ruling they are continuing to reform the system not reverting to a previous one. Also, here is an interesting quote from the article you provided:
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The final decision came from the city's mayor, Job Cohen, who argued that the brothels were attracting crime and money-laundering to the area. 'We want to get rid of the underlying criminality,' he told a TV station last week.
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Nowhere in that quote did he say the Netherlands were trying to get rid of prostitution but rather the negative elements that are plaguing it.
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Originally Posted by blankall
Why? Canada has many many illegal migrants from Asia. We are close enough to Mexico that we would see a huge surge from there.
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However, as you state they are
illegal migrants and, as such, would not be granted a work visa/permit and allowed to work in legal brothels/windows if we were to follow the Dutch model.