I'd like to address the end demand aim of PCEPA. It's preposterous for Canada to think that it is going to do something that no society or any other country has ever done in the history of the world, which is to end sex work.
If the government is interested in ending demand, you don't take away the purchasers of sex. You look at poverty, the gender wage gap, housing prices and systemic racism. All of those factors are the push factors into the sex industry for some folks for whom it is a last resort, and it is the last thing that they want to be doing.
This continued conversation about ending demand via criminalizing the purchasers of sex is a colossal waste of money and resources, and it's a cover for the moral opposition to the sex industry. That is not how you protect sex workers. It will never work in Canada and it has never worked anywhere.