Laws must be repealed and sex work must be decriminalized immediately
Instead of fully decriminalizing sex work as the decision implied, Parliament instead fully criminalized sex work for the first time in Canadian history in 2014 under the ideological—and absurd—notion that sex workers are inherently exploited and that sex work can be eradicated through criminalization.
MONTREAL—On June 22, the House Justice and Human Rights Committee tabled its report following hearings on laws criminalizing sex work. The current Criminal Code provisions, known as the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA), were adopted in 2014 after the Supreme Court of Can...
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