I will bet you 10 years of my income that prostitution WILL be legalized somewhere in Canada and then it will be legal in the whole country in the next 10-15 years.
It is illegal federally. The provinces can't make it legal individually and none seems interested. The only chance is if it is violates constitutional rights which by my reading and the lack of any court challenges it doesn't. There is simply no electoral payoff in Canada for politicians to champion prostitution.
You clearly don't se that attitudes evolve which is why abortion and soon cannabis are legal when only a decade or a few decades ago it was totally unthinkable.
Of course they are evolving, against prostitution. From what I remember of recent polls young people are more against it not less so.
These erotic massage parlours,which are legal, is a form of legal prostitution.Why are they called erotic massage? Because it's a discreet way of saying they sell blow jobs.
They are not legal which is why Laval just closed 19 of them. Tolerated and legal is not the same thing.
Escort services are also legal. And nobody rents out a woman for a dinner and a little conversation..Especially because they charge by the hour or sometimes half hour.
Escort services leave the sex part up to the people concerned so the escort service isn't breaking the law. The transaction takes place in private so difficult to bust anyone unless police are willing to go undercover but they could only arrest the man. I doubt they will go that far. Escort services are likely to keep on trucking as they have been because they are so lowkey. Nothing takes place on the premises.
So I think you're out of touch about this issue. It's inevitable,it will happen and once it is it will become an untouchable issue just like abortion.
It has already joined the ranks of the untouchable unless the law is unconstitutional which I doubt. Abortion and prostitution law were both addressed by the Supreme Court because they were legally challenged not because any politician chose to deal with those subjects. Cannabis was addressed because Trudeau saw the upside. It instantly labeled him as progressive. In the US individual states started legalizing because citizens can demand referendums and a group got enough signatures to do it. Other than they are both illegal there is no similarity between cannabis and prostitution.
Be happy Singh wants to spare drug addicts criminal records.