Thank you for the question. PCEPA needs to be repealed in its entirety. No amendments that could be made would protect sex workers.
As I stated previously, for the population of sex workers we work with—newcomer, migrant and immigrant women—PCEPA acts as the gateway and the entry point into multi-layered criminalization. Police, through PCEPA, work in a tag-team approach, either with municipal bylaw officers or with Canada Border Services. Making sex work safer cannot be done through PCEPA. PCEPA has to be repealed in its entirety.