- The House of commons should not try to manage problems like prostitution, they should try to solve them. Considering all parties.
- Legalizing or partly legalizing the buying of sexual services does not solve the prostitution problem. It actually perpetuates and increases it. http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/laws/000022.html
- Prostitution and the sex industry are "fertile ground" for other crime, human trafficking being the most evident one.

Therefore:

WE THE UNDERSIGNED CITIZENS OF CANADA, draw attention to the House to the following:

WHEREAS it is internationally acknowledged that the median age of entry into prostitution is 12-14 years of age;

WHEREAS 92% of prostitutes would leave prostitution if they could;

WHEREAS the demand for commercial sex with women and children is the root cause for prostitution and trafficking for sexual purposes;

WHEREAS child prostitution and violence towards women have increased in countries where prostitution has been legalized;

THEREFORE your petitioners request that Parliament amend the Criminal Code to decriminalize the selling of sexual services and criminalize the purchasing of sexual services and provide support to those who desire to leave prostitution.

  Download this petition to call for Canada to adopt the Swedish (Nordic) approach to prostitution. The Swedish approach decriminalizes the seller, criminalizes the demand, and provides support to those who wish to exit the sex trade.