2. Note that the religious re-education program -- in rural Manitoba! -- is for "women, men, and transgendered individuals."
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3. The Salvation Army has a history of homophobia so what sort of "educational" and "therapeutic" treatment will sex workers receive.
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4. A reminder: the "Swedish model" doesn't make sense if your country isn't Sweden.
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5. In North America - primitive welfare state, many sexual hangups - "the Swedish model" means return to Victorian shaming of sex workers
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6. Canada's Parliament passed a law targeting some of the most vulnerable members of our society, with no thought of their safety.
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7. Lecturing sex workers on the need to become good Christian boys and girls: Dickens and Gladstone would understand.
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8. Although to be fair, Dickens and Gladstone had a greater awareness of the sociology of poverty than the current government.
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9. Canada's longest serving Prime Minister used to go to red light districts at night, where he'd lecture them on Christianity.
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10. So going back to Gladstone and Mackenzie King there is a tradition here. But Gladstone & King had other things going for them.
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11. Government handing over the most vulnerable to religious groups has worked out well in Canadian history: look at the residential schools
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12. Fairness to William Lyon Mackenzie King: he went to red light district & lectured prostitutes, didn't send them to remote rural camps.
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13. The union of church and state to silence & shame the vulnerable while promoting retrograde morality: you say Canada has no traditions?
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14. A minor point but worth remembering: this type of church/state union is also degrading to religion.
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