Right.
When you read the provisions, it doesn't actually say that exploitation needs to occur in order for a third party, for example, to be charged. Just the very relationship or earning a material benefit off the work that a sex worker does is considered a reason for arrest, and the exceptions to the exceptions don't actually leave room to adjust for the actual relationships that sex workers have with third parties. It doesn't actually address violence. The only thing that addresses violence within the PCEPA is the assumption that sex work is violent, so all of the laws stem from that.
There are laws that actually address violence, period, that we would appeal to insofar as the Criminal Code is a useful tool sometimes. We would appeal to those laws to address violence in sex workers' lives, but we would definitely not say that the sex work laws actually address violence in sex workers' lives. They're just used as an extra tool that law enforcement has to be in the lives of sex workers, hoping, as they scrounge around, to find something.
I don't know if that answers your question.