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Manitoba demands Craigslist removes prostitute ads
Justice Minister Andrew Swan (WAYNE.GLOWACKI@FREEPRESS.MB.CA ARCHIVES)
WINNIPEG - Manitoba will follow Ontario’s lead in demanding that online service Craigslist stop carrying ads for prostitutes under its erotic services section.
Justice Minister Andrew Swan, attending a meeting of Canadian attorneys general in Vancouver, said in a telephone interview this afternoon that he will write a letter to Craigslist "in the hope that they’ll voluntarily pull those ads" as it did in the United States following similar political pressure from state officials.
"Ontario has led the way. We plan to follow along and we hope those ads will also be removed from Canadian websites," said Swan, noting that the issue has received considerable attention among his colleagues from across the country.
Three Ontario cabinet ministers wrote to Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster Sept. 14 to applaud the service for agreeing to requests from attorneys general south of the border to shut down links to prostitution-related ads.
The ministers noted, however, that it had not yet done so in Canada.
Critics of the Craigslist erotic services section say that underage girls are being sold for sex in the ads.
Kildonan-St. Paul Conservative MP Joy Smith told reporters earlier in the day that she had lobbied Swan to follow Ontario’s lead in pressuring the Internet site to remove the offending ads. She said she is also encouraging other provincial justice ministers and her own government to do the same.
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