Okay, excellent.
I ask that because I often find in the House of Commons, wherever you stand on sex work and depending on which party you're in, that you either support really tangible things for prevention and protection or not. I'm going to continue pushing that, particularly to end any form of gender-based violence.
My next question is for Madam Snider.
You submitted a brief, and I want to speak specifically to the legislation everybody's talking about today. This came from the Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform, which is an alliance of 25 sex worker rights groups across the country led predominantly by and for sex workers. I believe in decisions that are “nothing about us without us”.
Along with several individual applicants, they filed a constitutional challenge against the PCEPA in 2021, arguing the law violates sex workers' constitutional rights to “security, personal autonomy, life, liberty, free expression, free association, and equality.”
In your brief, you said:
In addition, as the laws related to sex work are again to be challenged in the Supreme Court in the near future, we want to caution against the conflation of sex work and sex trafficking. We acknowledge the divide between sex workers and sex worker rights advocates, and those impacted or trafficked in the industry.
I'm wondering if you could expand a bit on that point.