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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2014

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Sophia Banks

      1. Canada is now a country that will offer sex workers the "option" of being sent to religious reeducation camps:https://twitter.com/sophiaphotos/status/529989855195828224 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Sophia BanksVerified account @sophiaphotos
      Gross. Under #C36 Canada plans to send sex workers to 'camp' run by the Salvation Army. pic.twitter.com/pLoEyIfbvM
      11 replies 92 retweets 18 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2014
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      2. Note that the religious re-education program -- in rural Manitoba! -- is for "women, men, and transgendered individuals."

      1 reply 12 retweets 2 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2014
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      3. The Salvation Army has a history of homophobia so what sort of "educational" and "therapeutic" treatment will sex workers receive.

      1 reply 19 retweets 4 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2014
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      4. A reminder: the "Swedish model" doesn't make sense if your country isn't Sweden.

      4 replies 6 retweets 3 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2014
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      5. In North America - primitive welfare state, many sexual hangups - "the Swedish model" means return to Victorian shaming of sex workers

      6 replies 10 retweets 3 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2014
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      6. Canada's Parliament passed a law targeting some of the most vulnerable members of our society, with no thought of their safety.

      4 replies 10 retweets 2 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2014
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      7. Lecturing sex workers on the need to become good Christian boys and girls: Dickens and Gladstone would understand.

      1 reply 10 retweets 1 like
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2014
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      8. Although to be fair, Dickens and Gladstone had a greater awareness of the sociology of poverty than the current government.

      2 replies 9 retweets 5 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2014
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      9. Canada's longest serving Prime Minister used to go to red light districts at night, where he'd lecture them on Christianity.

      1 reply 5 retweets 3 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2014
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      10. So going back to Gladstone and Mackenzie King there is a tradition here. But Gladstone & King had other things going for them.

      2 replies 4 retweets 2 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2014

      11. Government handing over the most vulnerable to religious groups has worked out well in Canadian history: look at the residential schools

      6:38 AM - 10 Nov 2014
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2014
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          12. Fairness to William Lyon Mackenzie King: he went to red light district & lectured prostitutes, didn't send them to remote rural camps.

          2 replies 4 retweets 2 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2014
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          13. The union of church and state to silence & shame the vulnerable while promoting retrograde morality: you say Canada has no traditions?

          1 reply 20 retweets 11 likes
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        1. Ron Read‏ @RonRRead 10 Nov 2014
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          @HeerJeet With deference to the Salvation Army, this is another way to say that Canada still believes in the residential school concept.

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        1. Stephen Geigen-Miller‏ @Stephen_GM 10 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet Also, how will people of First Nations descent caught up in this react to being offered 'ride out of town' by Winnipeg police?

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