First of all, I believe it is important to criminalize the clients, the users and the pimps who live off these women. To me this is obvious.
It must also be pointed out that in certain cases, there is a criminalization of the victims. Let us talk about the bawdy houses or the massage parlours that are currently proliferating. Prostitution is not illegal in Canada, but everything that surrounds it is. People who have just arrived, new immigrants, primarily find themselves in bawdy houses and massage parlours; in such cases they are criminalized. This casts a shadow and imposes a false belief on these women who find themselves in the world of prostitution in general — not only in the massage parlours —, the belief that prostitution is criminal. The pimps use this ignorance like swords over their heads to keep them under their control.