To the witnesses physically present here in Ottawa, once again we have a unanimous panel of witnesses with respect to the problem in this bill: the extent that it criminalizes sex workers or prostituted individuals, depending on which language you prefer, in section 213. All of you have said, either in your written briefs or in your testimony, that that is a problem.
Some of you may know that the only defence to that we've heard in the testimony this week, other than from the minister and his officials, is that even though we have the right to lay a charge or to give a judicial record of conviction—I'll be careful with my language—to a sex worker or a prostituted person, we don't necessarily exercise that right. We use it as a tool to get to talk them, so we can separate them from their pimps or from their bodyguard, and by holding out the prospect that we're going to charge them, we can get to talk to them.
To each of you, does that make it okay?