It's over five years. It's insufficient, and it's not going to do the things that people might imagine it will do to provide services and opportunities and strategies for people not to enter prostitution.
If this government wishes to address the issues that lead to people having economic circumstances, for example, that cause them to want to enter the sex trade, they should do things such as address our social safety net, which is insufficient. In Vancouver, for example, social assistance is about $600; if you want to rent a one-bedroom apartment in Vancouver, it's about $1,000. I don't see the government there addressing the primary thing that leads people to enter into subsistence sex work.
In that sense, you can't look at this bill as actually achieving one of its major goals. And deciding that criminalizing the purchase is the strategy does not remove the barriers to sex workers' achieving more safety, having better relationships with police, or being able to seek out other opportunities. It just does not do that.