The criminal law gives the power to the police and the law is designed to eliminate sex workers, so no matter how you train law enforcement or how good law enforcement is, it is still designed to target sex workers. That's why we say training police is not helpful. You can see this with the Black Lives Matter movement and the defund the police movement. They keep saying that the police are not the solution to many social issues. Police are the harm and problem for many marginalized communities, including racialized, LGBTQ and poor people.
Thank you so much for raising the issue of New Zealand. Personally, I have done outreach in New Zealand, and we have also worked with a sex worker group in Sweden. It's very clear that the end-demand model that Canada is using makes sex work more dangerous and creates a barrier for sex workers trying to access all kinds of resources. Of course, the New Zealand model has a disadvantage because they still have immigration laws targeting migrants and still have racism. Decriminalization—removing this from criminal law—is the first important step in making sex workers safe. It is not only sex workers who keep saying it. There are many, many sex worker organizations all over the world, not only in Canada, that talk about this.