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From a recent e-mail I sent to Vancouver’s major municipal electoral parties, COPE and NPA, in response to this article: (what do you think about this issue?)

This e-mail is to express my extreme disgust at Tim Louis’ proposal to start a city-owned, “break-even” brothel to protect vulnerable sex trade workers. While this proposal addresses some significant issues about the sex trade and its connection to the illegal drug trade on the DTES that cannot be ignored, I believe that it is misguided. There is no way that facilitating the unsafe sexual activity of sex-trade workers - many of whom are carriers for diseases such as TB, HIV, and hepatitis - actually will protect them in the long run.