Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to each of our guests for being here today.
Ms. Allison, I want to speak to you specifically about employment law. I'm pleased that you're here because I think you're the only employment law specialist we've heard from all week, and I think that is pretty important.
We've heard from a number of people that if parliamentarians choose to do nothing; if we allow the laws that were impugned in the Bedford decision to fall away with the expiry of the suspension in December, there will be a flood or a panacea of employee benefits to sex workers across Canada. You pointed out that most employment law is in provincial jurisdiction, as I appreciate.
First of all, a number of people have told us that they have in the past worked or that they currently work for an escort agency today and have for the past number of years.
In your view, are they actually in an employer-employee relationship with the escort agency? What is the nature of the contractual relationship?