Thank you to our second panel for your evidence today and your co-operation throughout, and a special thank you to Ms. Smith for sharing a very personal and difficult story.
I want to thank you for sharing that, Ms. Smith. I share the comments of my colleague, Mr. Morrison. It was very difficult to hear that. It reminded me of similar cases that I prosecuted not too long ago, cases of similar young persons in your circumstances. Thank you for being a positive role model to your children moving forward.
I have a question for Ms. Smiley.
Ms. Smiley, I had the opportunity to review a piece that you wrote with Trisha Baptie. It was titled, “Quebec City murder underscores need to abolish prostitution”. With the time permitted, I'm going to ask you three questions.
First, in your view, can prostitution been made safe?