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Survey says: most Canadians think selling sex should be legal

By Steve Kupferman

| June 2, 2014

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66%

—Percentage of respondents to a Department of Justice online survey who answered “no” when asked whether selling sexual services should be a criminal offense in Canada, according to CTV News. Oddly, 56 per cent of respondents thought buying sex should be illegal.

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