that the spread of the street trade was not the result of the Hutt decision as was commonly believed, but that the ex!
             pansion had begun before that decision was handed down. They also concluded that it was "the contradictory and often self-defeating nature of the various criminal code sections relating to prostitution" (Lowman, 1998a:919) that rendered them ineffective. In light of this, the Fraser committee came to the conclusion that if the legislature wants prostitution to remain legal,
             the legislature must decide where it is to be permitted, and under what circumstances. To this end, the Committee recommended that while laws against coercive pimps and tangible street nuisances be retained, up to two prostitutes should be allowed to work out a single location and municipalities should be allowed to license small scale brothels. (Lowman, 1998b:920)
             Instead, the PC government that had power at the time bought into the "failure of the soliciting
             law" argument (the favourite of residence groups and police), and in December
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