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The solution to Canada’s strange solicitation laws

Xtra.ca chats with Georgina Beyer

By Frank Prendergast • October 7, 2009 8:00 pm EDT

As the constitutional challenge to Canada’s bizzare solicitation laws continues to unfold, Xtra.ca brings you our conversation from earlier in the year with Georgina Beyer. Beyer is a former member of the New Zealand parliament with some great insight into the criminalization of sex work.


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