Thank you, Ms. Lam, and you are absolutely correct. We don't want to see more sex workers come to harm.
Can you talk to us a bit about interactions with the authorities? In your opinion and your experience, what have you seen when there are interactions between sex workers and the authorities, especially when they're racialized or don't speak English? Can you tell us what the difference of treatment is between the way they are treated and the way other people, other sex workers, are treated, or is there no difference? Are they all—racialized or not—just seen as the same? Could you please make these distinctions, so we can better understand? Thank you.