Absolutely. We actually launched a constitutional challenge to all the sex work laws. There are seven applicants. The main applicant is our Alliance, our 25 sex worker rights groups. Then there are five individual sex workers and one third party who is still in an agency. We launched that constitutional challenge just last March. We hope to be in court at the first level in June or July.
We're challenging the entire regime. We're bringing forward a massive whack of evidence to demonstrate those harms. One problem with the most recent decision, the N.S. decision, is that it was really based on two hypotheticals regarding sex work co-operatives without considering all of the third party relationships that are prohibited under PCEPA.
This notion of the co-op that they ruled on is actually a theoretical idea. It assumes that everybody is independent, that everyone is kicking in the same amount of money, that everybody has the same share, that nobody exercises any influence over everybody and that nobody is concerned with profit. That simply doesn't exist.
While that decision was made in the Ontario Court of Appeal, our case is really explaining the different roles that third parties play in the lives of sex workers. They are various roles that aren't actually allowed with the existing Criminal Code provisions. We're not just talking about drivers and receptionists. We're talking about sex workers who aren't entrepreneurs who really depend on third parties. Most sex workers aren't entrepreneurs and cannot be entrepreneurs.
This idea that most sex workers are able to do that or that the sex workers who want decriminalization are a small subset is a complete myth and used by prohibitionists as a tactic.