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<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/canadian-law-buying-sex-crime-210019596--finance.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/k7hVFnofOBOfiVSk5l3xug--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-06-04T210019Z_1006960001_LYNXMPEA530X3_RTROPTP_2_CANADA-US-CANADA-PROSTITUTION.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Canada's Justice Minister MacKay speaks during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa" align="left" title="Canada's Justice Minister MacKay speaks during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa" border="0" /></a>By Randall Palmer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Prostitutes in Canada will generally be allowed to sell their services, but for the first time it will be a crime to buy sex from them under a government bill introduced on Wednesday to replace legislation the Supreme Court struck down in December. The Supreme Court had suspended for a year the effect of its decision, which struck down a ban on brothels and street solicitation on the grounds that it compromised the safety of sex workers, to allow time for a new law to be enacted. The bill introduced by Justice Minister Peter MacKay is loosely modeled on what has been called the Nordic model, which targets customers and pimps, but not the sex workers themselves. Until the Supreme Court decision, prostitution had technically been legal, but most related activities were not.</p><br clear="all"/>