Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Russomanno, Professor Benedet, and Émilie or Naomi, I want to ask a few questions about advertising.
It seems fairly clearly established from both the reading and the earlier testimony that one way or the other, if anybody is going to advertise prostitution services, sex work services, they're going to have to do it somehow on their own and any third-party involvement risks criminalization or will be criminalized. I find it very hard to figure out exactly what kind of effective advertising that would be.
One of the concerns I have is that some of the advertising that allows somebody to work out of their home or work out of some kind of a fixed location—advertise that fact, screen by way of a phone call, screen visually once a person arrives, and that kind of stuff—is going to be harder because the advertising modalities, the vehicles, the third parties that help create effective advertising will be gone and therefore advertising may push itself back out to the street. I'm not sure exactly.
Mr. Russomanno, earlier you talked about protective expression and you were specifically talking about communicating for screening and how this added provision, which Professor Benedet also brought up, whereby if you're doing it anywhere where anybody under 18 can be expected to be, would get in the way of protective expression.
Do you see the advertising features of this also in light of this idea of protective expression?
Professor Benedet, do you not have any concerns about the prohibition on any kind of a third-party involvement in advertising in what it might do by way of risk factors? You did isolate the communicating in areas where those under 18 are present or expected to be present, but you didn't focus on that.
I want the members of the Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform to comment on the advertising.