Justice committee  Yes, it uses language like “acts of indecency” that are incredibly vague and have no concrete meaning at all.

Justice committee  If the problem was violence and harm, other sections of the Criminal Code are much more appropriate to deal with that.

Justice committee  The bawdy house laws come from a historical period and continue to carry with them a certain type of enforcement of morality. There are problems that might exist in terms of the situations you're describing. Those are much better dealt with under provisions of the Criminal Code t

Justice committee  Thanks, Tom. Also, thanks to Dean Leckey for the support from McGill for the position that we are putting forward today before this committee. The act of indecency section of the bawdy house law is linked to a broader legal construction of same-gender sex as indecent in Canadia