It seems that many of you do not make the difference between de-criminalisation and legalisation.
What is not illegal is legal, but legalisation usually means "making it legal to commit the crime". Thus, they issue licenses, which are nothing more than a conditional waiver of prosecution that allows you to commit the crime without being prosecuted. Every single license that you have implies that you confessed and admitted the "crime" for which you are licensed to. Marriage, driving, you name it.
De-criminalisation means that the govt will simply mind it's own business and get the fuck out of what is happening between two consenting adults. Out, exit, laissez-faire.
In law, if somebody alledges that you commited a crime against themm say breathing air, and they trick you into signing for getting a license for it, then, you made yourself a criminal and delivered yourself unto legal bondage.
BTW, prostitution is not, never was a crime in Canada, as far as I know; it is sollicitation that is deemed to be a crime.
"The only power any government has is to crack down on crime and
criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, then one
makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes
impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation
of law-abiding citizens. What's there in that for anyone. But just
pass the kinds of law that can neither be observed nor enforced nor
objectively interpreted and you create a nation of lawbreakers
- and then you can cash in on their guilt."
-Ayn Rand
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