Solving the Economic Crisis...

Ok... I'm no economics whiz...
I don't pretend to know more about politics than I really do (which is more than I can say for a great deal of university students out there... plus a few profs... and probably a great number of our political back-benchers...)
Lots of people understand the THEORIES behind the economics... but few seem to have the wisdom to predict and project long-term effects... I don't pretend to understand the theoretical, but I DO like to appreciate a cold-dose of logic now and then...

What I ALSO know is that despite our being married financially to the USA, Canada tries valiantly to escape the same 'tar-and-feather' treatment suffered by the Americans... in years past we've travelled Europe with Canadian flags on our backpacks (so have Americans... in order to try to appear Canadian in order to be treated civilly...)
We have a number of issues that set us apart from our neighbours to the south (the least of which is the letter 'u' in any number of our words - like 'neighbour'...)
Things like:
- national health care,
- cleaner air laws,
- substantially lower crime rate,
And more obvious things...

However, we in Canada have been beginning to suffer a small economic crisis... in that we are short 'labour workers'... In that... in case the average reader doesn't know the term... it means the lower-end jobs... servers and warehouse workers and swampers... you know... the stuff that YOU didn't want to do anymore either...

So what to do? And how can we set ourselves apart from the USA?
How can we REALLY portray ourselves as 'different' and 'morally superior' to our southern neighbours?

Legalize prostitution.

Yes, I'm serious.

Think about it... legalized prostitution will not only keep safe our sex-trade workers... both from an individual-economic as well as a criminal stand-point... it will also effectively cease the import of slave-immigrant workers who huddle in abject terror and are forced to prostitute their bodies because their captors retain their documentation (passports, etc.) and tell them horror-stories like 'If they run away, they will be caught by the police and deported... or worse!'
THAT is a serious epidemic as well... much more life-threatening than any small-potatoes 'labour shortage'... and MUST be addressed sooner than later...
Props to the peeps that are trying to safeguard the humble workers of the world's 'oldest profession'...

Allow me to clarify my stance...
Legal prostitution... (which has been done in Amsterdam to great success, incidentally) will have the current sex-trade workers paying taxes on their income, will discourage such phenomena as 'pimps' (for the sex-trade workers will be protected governmentally)...
What immigrant slave-trader will decide to come here with his ill-gotten-gains when the laws here protect the rights of the women he has enslaved?
Not very many, I wager...
Instituting a task-force to ensure the proper legalization of these new busineses (under the model of the Better Business Bureau) would be a further step. This would involve protecting the rights of the workers in a business environment, ensuring that all buinesses met with proper health and safety guidelines and prosecution of illegal activities that did not conform to the laws as stipulated...
I know quite a few individuals that would gladly sign-up to be a part of this agenda...
Look at that! More jobs!
Plus... it may very well save marriages!
No more sneaking around for the average politico or businessman... they will be entitled to frequent the 'bawdy house' of their choice... and it will be ABOVE THE LAW! (I'm sure not having to pick up their escort under shadow of darkness will be a relief to many 401k-ers...)

Plus... and here's the kicker... once we legalize the sex-trade, marijuana won't be far behind...
(I tell you... Amsterdam has THE model for this kind of liberalistic agenda...)
Making pot smoking legal will create an influx of liberal-minded pot-enthusiasts from other countries who will invariably (inevitably?) work at the 7-11's, video stores and warehouses across the country in order to keep a roof over their heads while they support their recreational activities...
Whether they inhale or not...

Ta-da!
Economic crisis averted.