Few care about abuse of foreign strippers.

[geek tragedy]

The Canadian government has finally ended its evil sponsorship of sex trafficking. It only took them seven years to figure it out.

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But hundreds of foreign-born strippers here on temporary work permits have been exploited and denied their rights, say feminists and anti-trafficking activists, because we don't think much of women who take their clothes off for a living.

"Strippers are stigmatized and vilified even when they are citizens of Canada," says University of Toronto law professor Audrey Macklin. Add the fact that these women "are foreign-born with marginal status, with no sure road to citizenship, and they are thought of as worthless.

"We want them to come and do our dirty work and be deported. That is our great shame."

Macklin, who specializes in immigration issues, studied the foreign strippers in Toronto in 1999-2001 and discovered many had paid agents and networks back home to get here and then split their salaries in Canada with bouncers, DJs and drivers. In order to have any money for herself, the stripper was often forced into more lucrative lap dancing, she says, while the employers had the government on their side, bringing more and more women in.

"We did this so that Canadian men can get a naked woman to sit on their laps while they (masturbate)," says Macklin.

The Canadian government's role in a seven-year program to fast-track strippers into Canada has recently hit the headlines with the news that Immigration Minister Judy Sgro intervened on humanitarian grounds in the case of a foreign-born stripper who worked in her campaign office. The foreign stripper program began in 1998 at about the same time that lap dancing was made illegal in a court battle that was fought all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

On Dec. 1, the fast-track program died when the human resources minister rescinded the market evaluation that this was a skilled employment field with insufficient Canadian workers. (Other occupations falling into this skilled category are IT specialists and academic chairs.)
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[TomPaine77]

1. Many of These Women Were Also Raped....

see the thread about the Hungarian survivor of captivity as a sex slave in Canada, who was also forced to work as a stripper www.pbs.org/frontline/sexslaves

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[mongo]

3. Not to sure about this article

Macklin, who specializes in immigration issues, studied the foreign strippers in Toronto in 1999-2001 and discovered many had paid agents and networks back home to get here and then split their salaries in Canada with bouncers, DJs and drivers.

Well, it is my understanding that most clubs work this way, and ALL the dancers give a portion of their tips to the bouncers and DJ's.

If you are doing out-call, it is customary to pay your driver. They are there both as a driver, and a body guard.

Doesn't seem like they are getting treated any differently in the clubs than a citizen.

[barb162]

4. Gee, wonder why it took so long

"It only took them seven years to figure it out."

HEY, GT you forgot to put the link in there, but great post