I hobby the same as before, the SPs and MPs are complaining that things are really slow. I suspect some guys are cutting down or cutting out.
To answer your question, I am hobbying about the same as I did prior to that dark day in December (when c-36 became law). I am a hobbyist of opportunity, and have still seen at least SP from BP since then. I honestly can't see LE bothering with "sting" operations unless things such as underage girls, human trafficking are at play.
Interestingly TERB had a thread with this article. To my knowledge, no one in Quebec either has been charged as a "John"
I would have just posted a link to the Sun News network site, but that is a different story about why they aren't around anymore!
See below:
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3:10 pm, February 4th, 2015
DANIEL PROUSSALIDIS & IKE RAI | SUN NEWS NETWORK
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews...04-151017.html
TORONTO - No charges have been laid against johns in Ontario even though it became a crime to buy sex from a prostitute about two months ago, Sun News Network has learned.
Ontario's Office of the Attorney General says by January 26 of this year, courts had received 14 charges under new Criminal Code provisions dealing with prostitution that came into effect in early December.
Most of those charges are under two new provisions to deal with pimping, but police have also laid four charges for the new crime of advertising the sale of sexual services.
However, none of the charges are connected to the actual "purchase of sexual services" - something the feds made illegal in hopes of reducing the demand for prostitutes.
Asked about the stats from her own officials, Ontario's attorney general seemed caught off-guard.
"Listen, it's not the information that I have," said Madeleine Meilleur. "So, we are going to check on that and we'll come back to you."
Pressed for an answer, Meilleur insisted the law is being enforced in Ontario.
"Of course it's to the police to lay charges," she said. "And we are not directing the police how to do their work. But the law has been passed, and we are applying the new law."
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has said she has "grave concerns" about the new anti-prostitution law, and has asked Meilleur's office to prepare options in case the law is found to be unconstitutional.
Still, Wynne has also said, for now, the law should be enforced as is.
Federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay has called the criminalizing of the purchase of sex a key component of a "made in Canada" approach toward fighting prostitution.
Even so, the lack of charges against johns in Canada's most populous province doesn't seem to faze him.
"Whenever a new law comes into effect there may be a lag time," said MacKay in Ottawa. "There may be a bit of a period of adjustment."
The minister also insists Canada's new anti-prostitution law is effective, even before charges have been laid under one of its key provisions.
"Keep in mind this is a whole package of not only one particular law, but it also comes with funding and programming to assist those involved in prostitution in finding an exit strategy," he said. "So it is starting to have an effect and impact."
It's not clear yet if criminal charges against johns have been laid against johns outside of Ontario.