So under the new act that we are proposing, it will be a strict summary conviction offence for those who are caught communicating in a public place.
I'm curious to ask you, from the perspective of that new offence under this Bill C-36, a question that is twofold. One is that as the police are normally the first point of contact in a lot of instances under this type of investigation, I want you to take me through the discretionary powers of a police officer when it comes to this type of an offence. What they try to do at all costs, in my opinion, is rather than sending the sex worker to jail, they truly want to give this person help. So I want to hear from you about what the discretionary powers of the police officer are.
The second part of that is, because it's summary conviction and there are no fingerprints and no photograph, does that give power to the police to use that discretionary power?