As you know, in the Supreme Court of Canada decision, the court struck down three provisions: living on the avails of prostitution, common bawdy house, and communication.
The PCEPA actually reinscribes those very same provisions, adds the prohibition on purchasing and a prohibition on advertising. Nothing has changed. The harms that the Supreme Court of Canada found almost a decade ago are still happening, as you heard from the research. This means that this current law is still unconstitutional; it will not withstand charter scrutiny. The same harms are occurring, and there are reams of research to prove that.
Even though there's a new legislative objective that says it's claiming to eliminate and discourage sex work to promote reporting, you heard during my presentation that it's not meeting any of those legislative objectives. It's not even rationally connected to this idea of feminism and gender equality when you realize that you're putting sex workers in harm's way and also denying their personhood by stigmatizing them.
Dr. Chevrier, in the last presentation, talked about wanting to make it so dangerous that sex workers would just leave the industry. That is not a feminist model and cannot withstand constitutional scrutiny.
I would say there needs to be a wholesale repeal of PCEPA. There's nothing about it that is.... The law is irredeemable.