Aside from penalties to the crimes of this nature.... There's a question that I asked a group of young men hockey players here in Alberta just this past Friday night in talking to them about this issue. They were 17 to 20 years old, young men about to enter adulthood and the world. They have influence because they're hockey players, and people look up to them.
What if the people of this committee, these boys, and the people of Canada determined to change the culture and industry of exploitation, so that by the time young people of today grow up, they no longer live in a society in which men are emboldened to purchase another human for their own gratification? This requires a cultural shift, and the PCEPA creates a framework for that cultural shift.