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Prostitute: I’ll Out Canadian Pols

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After she was kicked out a hearing.

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A former sex worker who is challenging Canada’s prostitution laws was kicked out of a Senate hearing in Ottawa after she threatened to name politicians who hire prostitutes. Terri-Jean Bedford’s case before Canada’s supreme court led to the country’s sex laws being struck down, which led to the Conservative government’s bill that would target both the buyers of sex and sex workers. “I have more information and more proof on politicians in this country than you can shake a stick at. I promise,” she declared, before she was kicked out.

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