Justice committee  It is not my end goal. Exit is not my end goal. I do actually support people who come to me and say, I want to start looking for another job. We are actually planning to have a workshop about how to write a resumé and how to do a cover letter. We offer our clients a space where t

Justice committee  Yes, there are. I absolutely—

Justice committee  There are.

Justice committee  What if they're working with—

Justice committee  What if they're working in an area where there are youth 18 or younger?

Justice committee  Well, what I can do is tell you about the sex workers who do advertise online and in newspapers. Their concern with this legislation is that first, it will be difficult for them to reach clients because many of them use third-party websites. I won't mention their names—I was goin

Justice committee  Absolutely. As I said, we work with many street-involved sex workers. We have a drop-in centre where people can come in and get some food, and pick up safer sex and safer drug-use supplies. People were wondering what was going on with this legislation, and we thought a great id

Justice committee  Yes, absolutely. For me, it is not something that I would like to see happen. I would prefer that prostitution be decriminalized, because as—

Justice committee  The Prostitution Reform Act 2003 of New Zealand recognized the harm done to sex workers, and that is why they decided to decriminalize. In fact, the intent of that legislation was to create a framework to safeguard the human rights of sex workers and to protect them from exploita

Justice committee  These are things that sex workers need.

Justice committee  No. I can answer how I want to do that, sir. Actually, yes. When prostitution is between two or more consenting adults, I feel those consenting adults should have the ability to decide for themselves what they want to be doing.

Justice committee  No.

Justice committee  I would go back to what Chanelle was just saying that the sex workers groups I'm talking about are predominantly if not fully made up of people who are currently in the sex industry. There's a big difference, a huge difference, between someone who will actually be impacted themse

Justice committee  Yes, current.... There are no—

Justice committee  Are you current sex workers?