In fact, in a letter Tuesday to Councillor Cesar Palacio, chairman of the licensing and standards committee and Councillor Peter Milczyn, chairman of the planning and growth management committee, Mammoliti — chairman of the community development and recreation committee — asked for a joint meeting to discuss this.
He wants “a discussion about licensing fees and zoning restrictions that should be attached to the opening and operating of such “Bunny Ranch” brothels that have been recently discussed in (Toronto Sun columnist Mike Strobel’s Tuesday column).”
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Mammoliti said council should “visit the idea of having a licensing fee, or creating a tax, attached to each employee.”
So how much will hookers have to pay to ply their trade in Toronto?
“I ask you to consider a minimum $15,000 per employee annual tax.”
Mammoliti wants Toronto get its fair share of services delivered — but not as a pimp. He wants to run pimps out of town.
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“Given the recent decision by the (Ontario Court of Appeal) it is my belief that we need to be ahead of the opening of such establishments in ways of licensing and zoning,” he wrote. “We can do this by implementing an employee tax, specific to the conduct of prostitution.”
In an interview, Mammoliti said “Toronto has got caught with its pants down” and if council doesn’t take this proposition head on who knows where how it will spin out of control.
