The pick ton case is a lot more then just about prostitution. .
He was a serial killer that targeted prostitutes..many of them were first nations..
Yes the lady should of had a big stack in those cause she is first nations also .
But this law would not had made it ease to prosicute pickton ..
Pickton got away with murder for so long ..because no one cared what was happening to prostitutes..and drug users .. in curing the police from a number of municipalities ..
What caused their concerns to change I can't remember .. I think it was that a women escaped one of his attacks and then thd publicity. ...there had all ready been romurs of what was going on there at the farm for yrs... .
And it was the testimony of basically one of his accomplices that help convict one person...When there is speculation that more were involved ...but they don't have enough evidence to charge them..
This is the Canadian justice system ..remember.
The woman that escaped in 1997 is the woman that the police thought was an "unreliable witness". It wasn't enough for her to have her throat sliced open when a civilian picked her up running naked down the road, It wasn't enough that Pickton stated that he had hired her as a prostitute when they found the key too the handcuffs he had put on her in his pocket.
He was discovered in 2002 by a brand new mountie that didn't know that you don't search the homes of "valuable informants" because some civilian has complained that he has a weapon. The brand new mountie saw Pickton's collection of trophies which no other officer had noticed in Pickton's trophy case - despite all the times they had visited to exchange information or to pay him. Each trophy was Pickton's personal memento of the "good times" he had had with that murdered woman.
BTW - being a valuable informant is how Clifford Olsen escaped discovery for years
After All, what are deaths of a few women and children when a valuable informant would be unable to entertain himself?