Content advisory: This article contains language regarding a sexual service that may be offensive to some. The hearing is concerning Top Health, an Asian-owned massage parlour fighting against the town denying it a licence over alleged violations of bylaws, including one specific to massage parlours offering sexual services.
Top Health and the municipality have been locked in appeal committee hearings for several days, spread out over several months. It stems from the efforts of the town to crack down on alleged illicit massage parlours offering sexual services, which the town passed a bylaw to address.
But advocates have pushed back and said the bylaw unfairly targets Asian-owned parlours. The hearing discussed messages between Brewer and another party, apparently from Top Health. Brewer said after his text, the respondent said not to talk over the phone and directed him to the Top Health address.
Brewer said no. The municipality has offered evidence with respect to Top Health, which shows it listed on various sexual websites such as LeoList. McCann has pushed back on that assertion, with lines of questioning on any direct evidence that Top Health itself made these advertisements and floating the possibility that a third party did so.
Concerning the website advertisement, Levitt engaged in a line of questioning as to whether Brewer could see any reason for a third party to post about Top Health. Top Health was one of three locations denied such a license, and the town said it defied town rules and continued to operate regardless.
