I think that, in general, race definitely plays a role. We see with male violence across the board, whether women are in prostitution or not, there's often a problem, like “she asked for it". We see these issues of sexism.
I do want to point out that when I was in the Netherlands, I was speaking with a worker there who was going around to the women in the windows. She was told about a case where a woman had been assaulted, had gone to the police, went through the court process and the judge was actually a client of hers.
I think that we need to be thinking about this as well if we're going to do total decriminalization. Are police allowed then to just go and do this on their breaks? What about judges, decision-makers and city councillors? How does that impact us as people in Canada?
I think that's important to think about.