Have you ever been at a fast food restaurant parking lot in the summer when someone throws out half a lunch and all the birds swoop in for a meal. There are tiny sparrows, pigeons and medium sized brown birds all eating. Then all of the sudden a big sea gull swoops in and gobbles everything up. That is what the new mayor did, he did what politicians do best, make himself look as good as possible on other peoples back. These raids were planned long ago ago and the investigations took months. With the RCMP involved, this tells me that they were after places that had women brought in from other countries. There may be a few more high profile raids, but after that the mayor will show the citizens of the city that he is cracking down on permit violations. According to the news reports many salons do not have the right permits and are working under hair salon and nail salon permits. I do not know if the intend to go to the Toronto style permits where a erotic massage is allowed to exist. These erotic permits cost $10,000 a year and the ladies have to go through police criminal checks and personally have a $400-500 permit to work at the erotic salons. If this happens half the erotic masseuses will disappear into the woodwork since there are many students working part time at these salons.
With these recent raids 50-70% of the ladies will not show up this week at the salons and will wait to see what direction this matter is going.
With these recent raids 50-70% of the ladies will not show up this week at the salons and will wait to see what direction this matter is going.