Susan wants to open Canada’s first ever brothel

[Shana A]

Susan wants to open Canada's first ever brothel

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Although prostitution is legal in Canada, brothels are not. Sex workers have to trawl the streets by night, putting themselves at severe risks. Physical abuse is commonplace and many have been killed. One man was recently convicted for the murder of six women, most of them prostitutes from the poor Vancouver district of Downtown Eastside, and he's suspected of 43 other similar murders. Now, a group of Vancouver sex-workers has set up a sex workers "cooperative", with the hopes of opening Canada's first ever brothel in time for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Susan Davies, one of the campaign's organisers, tells us about her struggle.

[Susan]

Susan wants to open Canada's first ever brothel

No I don't!

[Dennis]

Yes you do, Susan, otherwise what was that business proposal you sent me about?

Dennis