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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Mammoliti pushes for Toronto Island brothels. Will we see dedicated John Ferries too?

If Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti gets his way, ferries full of sex-seekers will steam across the harbour to a Toronto Islands red light district.

Mammoliti has for years said Toronto should regulate and tax brothels, and made the establishment of a distinct prostitution zone a central plank in his aborted run for mayor last year.

Now part of Mayor Rob Ford’s inner circle, Mammoliti (Ward 7, York West) is renewing the push, along with the leafy islands as his top choice for location.

“It’s the political issue that nobody wants to touch,” Mammoliti, chair of the community development and recreation committee, said Tuesday after making his case in a radio interview...

...The sex zone, and hotels and other businesses it would draw, could put “hundreds of millions of dollars” in “sin taxes” into city coffers, he predicted. Get provincial permission for a casino on the islands and “we would have solved all of our problems at city hall without cutting and going crazy....”

Read the full article on Mammoliti's idiotic plan...

Posted via email from Siobhan O'Flynn's 1001 Tales

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