OTTAWA â Prosecutors and police will have enhanced powers to tackle prostitution, illegal gambling and drug trafficking activities by organized crime under new measures announced Wednesday by the Conservative government.
The new rules expand the list of what constitutes a serious crime in the Criminal Code â meaning offences punishable by five or more years in prison â to activities such as keeping a common bawdy house, keeping a gaming or betting house and exporting, importing or producing illegal drugs.
Although the new rules were welcomed by police organizations, opposition MPs said the government should have subjected the proposed changes to parliamentary scrutiny.
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He said, for example, three prostitutes living and receiving their clients in a shared apartment or three or more people playing poker for money could, if convicted, be branded as “serious offenders” and sentenced to five years in prison.

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