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The symbiosis of bureaucrats and strippers
A little education, for opposition MP's who are suddenly less than concerned about the exploitation of some of the women in this country, on a subject I am personally familiar with...strippers.
Well over a decade ago, I spent a year and a half in this less-than-savory profession. The club where I worked was an up-scale, fairly classy place (at least as far as strip clubs go), and the treatment afforded the women who worked there was better than most places I had been. This particular club also had one other defining characteristic -- an overwhelming reliance on "imported talent". Every Canadian girl was out numbered by Romanians, 10 to 1.
Knowing what I now know about Romania (I briefly visited), and the living conditions suffered by most under the Communist regime and after, I understand fully why many women would opt for any opportunity to leave a country that was crumbling into a bottomless pit of poverty. By comparison, I'm sure a Canadian strip club looked like a much more prosperous option. A clever ruse that many clubs and their agents were happy to perpetrate on their unsuspecting charges. I witnessed it many times, firsthand.
A young lady interested in moving to Canada and becoming a stripper, would get fast-tracked through an agent who would find her a club willing to sponsor her trip. She was not expected to cover any upfront costs. The club would then find her a hotel to stay in (at her cost) and a driver to ferry her back and forth from hotel to club (at her cost). In return, she was expected to "work off" the cost of her sponsorship to the tune of (on average) $9,000-$12,000 -- some were even charged interest. This usually required working 7 days a week, 10-13 hours a day, and taking home a measly fraction of the money she earned. In the meantime, the club would hold her passport, in order to prevent her from going anywhere else (or back home).
Contrary to most people's perceptions, strippers don't make scads of money -- unless they are willing to go a little above and beyond the call of duty. This is the main reason I didn't stay long in the business. If you're only there to dance, and 10 other girls are dishing out extra, it's a hard sell. Either way, it takes a long time to pay back these extortive fees and these women are afforded very little freedom of movement until they do.
This is the kind of exploitation our Immigration policy has been allowing and enabling for some time now and the Honorable Opposition would like to keep it that way. An odd thing, for the Liberals to circle the wagons on. I'm not sure which aspect they deem worth protecting more...the exploitation of women or the fast-tracking of economically dependent immigrants.
I worked with these women. Many were friends of mine. It was my shoulder they would cry on, in frustration, desperation and disillusionment at a system designed to mislead and delude them into an arrangement that afforded them the status of little more than slaves -- in this, a country of supposed freedom.
All this for a job Canadians won't do, I guess.
http://www.lassooftruth.com/the_lasso_o ... sis_o.html
Just as the Liberal knee-jerk solution to prostitution is legalization, this also looks to be more of legitimization of foreign slavery.