The Supreme Court of Canada
Status: Active. Hearing at the Supreme Court scheduled for November.
Summary:
Mikhail Kloubakov and Hicham Moustaine were convicted of two offences, which are part of Canada’s laws against prostitution enacted in 2014. First, obtaining a material benefit from prostitution of another person and second, procuring a person to offer or provide sexual services for compensation. The accused challenged the constitutionality of these provisions. Their case made it all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada in 2024. ARPA Canada intervened jointly with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada to defend the legitimacy of a law that prohibits prostitution per se, as a law that enforces and preserves fundamental societal norms connected to human dignity and equality, and that condemns the degradation of human sexuality inherent in prostitution.
ARPA Canada’s submissions to the Supreme Court of Canada.
