It totally does. Let's talk about issues that relate to so-called police harassment. Let's talk about when strolls are established in your neighbourhood, on your street, in front of where you live, your apartment building, in front of where you work, and what authorities the police have to deal with that.
If it's a pure legalization and there is no Criminal Code or no offence there, then the issues around enhanced vehicle traffic, johns approaching regular women on the street trying to use the sidewalks, and needles, condoms, and those types of things, are a source of grave community concern. Frankly, the community does not accept the police throwing their hands up in the air saying, “Geez, we can't do anything about it,” when it's your 16-year-old daughter who perhaps has been solicited, or things like that are happening.
I was at a police commission meeting a few years ago where this was indeed happening in the community, and the community collected a jar full of condoms and needles and such, brought it up, put it on the desk of the chairman of the police commission, and said, “You tell us it's not a social problem. Tell us what you're going to do about it.”
By having some provisions under the Criminal Code that allow us to take some steps, and by making it minimal provisions under the Criminal Code, i.e., summary conviction offences, it allows us to take some actions to remove the social disorder issues associated with that, and allows us to take some steps to address the victimization issue of those women, or men, because there is male prostitution, just to put this on the table. There's very little in the way of recognition or treatment of that.