Toronto, ON, July 4, β In , Canadian lawmakers rewrote prostitution legislation, making it illegal to purchase sexual services, however legal to sell them. Men and women tend to vary slightly in terms of their support for various aspects of prostitution. Canada currently has prostitution legislation called the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act PCEPA that decriminalizes prostituted persons sex workers but makes pimping, brothel ownership and sex purchasing johns illegal.
However, when Ontarians were tested on their knowledge of this legislation, few could answer correctly. These are some of the findings of an Ipsos poll conducted between June 25 to 27, Weighting was then employed to balance demographics to ensure that the sample's composition reflects that of the adult population according to Census data and to provide results intended to approximate the sample universe.
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