PROSTITUTION LAWS

In 2014 Harper made the selling of sexual services legal and the purchasing of and communicating for sexual services illegal. Not surprisingly it is not working out very well. “Things are definitely getting worse for sex workers. We have to make more and more compromises in terms of our safety so the client feels safe (from arrest).”

Sandra Wesley, the head of Stella, a Montreal-based organization run by and for sex workers, is seen at their offices Thursday, February 13, 2020 in Montreal. The recent killing of a 22-year-old woman in Quebec has focused renewed attention on Canada’s prostitution laws, which critics say are applied irregularly across the country and only make sex work more dangerous. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

https://www.660citynews.com/2020/02/16/murder-of-sex-worker-exposes-canadas-hypocrisy-on-prostitution-advocate/

FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY

There is no privacy. “”We give our police officers special powers in our society that we believe they need to keep us safe. But there is a trust relationship that has to be there, it’s the foundation of those powers.” Other local police services also use this technology. Give them power and they will abuse it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/clearview-ai-toronto-police-ccla-privacy-1.5463823

AN EVIDENCE CODE – The laws of evidence are very very complex. We also need a comprehensive overhaul of the Criminal Code however we no longer have a law reform commission to instruct and advise.

An evidence code is needed because, in R. v. Graat [1982] 2 S.C.R. 819, Justice Brian Dickson, delivering the judgment of the Supreme Court, stated: “We start with the reality that the law of evidence is burdened with a large number of cumbersome rules, with exclusions, and exceptions to the exclusions, and exceptions to the exceptions.” And now, that fragmentation of the law of evidence is much worse.

Source: An evidence code to replace the many evidence acts | Ken Chasse – The Lawyer’s Daily