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Posted on 05/26/2026 6:35:26 AM PDT by Salman
MONTREAL — As Canadian Grand Prix qualifying took place at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve on Saturday, a different kind of rally took place in Montreal’s downtown core.
Sex workers announced they’d be going on strike during one of Montreal’s busiest weekends of the year. Over one hundred sex workers and allies walked the streets and protested in the name of improved wages and working conditions.
“Grand Prix was a good opportunity because our employers make a lot of money,” said Adore Goldman, co-founder of the Sex Work Autonomous Committee (SWAC), established in 2019. “But…often we don’t make that much money because they overbook. They book a lot of girls, and they raise the bar (fees). So, in the end, it’s just a normal night. Sometimes even worse.”
The protest comes against a complex legal backdrop. In Canada, selling sexual services is legal, but purchasing them is a criminal offense under Bill C-36, the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, passed in 2014. This means sex workers themselves operate legally, while their clients do not. That leaves workers in a precarious position, unable to fully access labor protections or report workplace incidents without exposing their clients to prosecution.
Protesters are calling for the abolition of bar fees, which sex workers have to pay before working shifts in clubs. Through speaking with numerous workers, The Athletic learned bar fees could range from $15 to $140.
“We don’t want to have to pay to work anymore,” said Goldman. ...
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Some sort of bizarre twisted lefty moralism.
Race Drivers pay in
Hats and ‘T’ Shirts.
WOW! Canaduh government is effed up, eh?
“””””In Canada, selling sexual services is legal, but purchasing them is a criminal offense under Bill C-36, the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, passed in 2014. This means sex workers themselves operate legally, while their clients do not. “””””
A new form of law in our brave new feminized world, the seductive pusher is legal, but the fish is the criminal.
Alternate headline: “Street Walkers take to the streets.”
I have no pity for these Sex Workers.
Nahh.
They’re always laying down on the job.
Time to Unionize? Oh, oh, I’ve got it! Union Local 69…..
Oh no! Not the Montreal sex workers !! I’m canceling my vacation
is prostitution legal in Canada?Legal in Montreal?
Interesting to see that there will be labor unions or labor actions on part of people who provide such services.
Dont they like being like men?
Men always pay. Men always pay.
“We don’t want to have to pay to work anymore,” said Goldman
Goldman is an idiot. Anybody who runs a business pays others. Rent, utilities, raw materials, employees, license fees, taxes. If you are a hair stylist you pay to rent a chair at a salon.
Why should whoring be any different?
I miss the good old days of the Windsor Ballet when the world was so innocent(?)....🙄
The prostitutes don’t have to pay to work. They can go back out to the street corners any time they want.
They’re paying the bar for a place to hang out (it sometimes does get cold or rainy in Montreal), a place they’re less likely to get mugged or more, a better place to pick up Johns than hopping into a car with anyone who pauses on the street, a place to sit down and grab a drink or a snack in between jobs, access to a restroom both for personal relief and for professional services.
A restaurant, bar or nightclub can decide for itself if it wants to providing free support services to the whores. That of course will chase out other potential customers, so it’s a matter of the crowd they want to attract. It can hire security to keep them out. It can charge them a fee to stay. But the establishment is indeed rendering valuable service to the working girls.
The girls themselves can head back onto the street. Or do their business online, on their own dime. Or sign up with an escort service (that will also charge them for services rendered).
There’s a notorious strip club in ATL, Magic City, where the girls can make 25k a night when there’s a big game in town. Pro athletes are big tippers.
And then they blow their money away.
The laws may have changed but back a while ago sex for money was legal but solicitation wasn’t. How solicitation is defined wasn’t made clear nor did I care to investigate the nuances.
It's the johns who need a union.
Also houses of prostitution are also no nos.
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