Thank you, Mr. Brock.
I'd also like to add my perspective as a female to this. I would like to see a Canada where we have a very balanced approach where women—or men in some cases, although it's mostly women—have the right to engage in lawful activities to support themselves. However, we need to strike a balance somehow because the sale of sex, and sex itself as an industry, can be used in a very negative way. I've already described all these situations.
Where I see Canada going is finding that balance. I think we're a country that can do that. I think we can look at examples from the rest of the world and really achieve that balance, perhaps with new legislation or modification of this legislation.
However, as the police, we have so many challenges in our investigations—I'm sure the Crown prosecutor, and you as a former Crown will understand—with constitutional challenges not even related to sex work, such as R. v. Jordan. There are certain disclosure issues and the burden of proof required in criminal court, which has only grown in the 20 years that I've been a police officer. These investigations can be very complicated. You start to talk about using other sections, such as the organized crime section. I've been the team commander on organized crime investigations. These are multi-year investigations with multi-year prosecutions in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars. Is that realistic for us to achieve in every instance, to balance the public safety that we're trying to achieve here?
I envision Canada finding that balance without having to do that extent of an investigation every single time, which would not be achievable in our current system.