I think the main piece is that sex work is inherently exploitative; it is not. There are people who exploit and people who are exploited. However, the act of sex work is not in itself exploitative. I think that is the underlying misconception in all of our laws and policies in Canada. Our sex work laws.... The PCEPA preamble is based on the premise that sex work is inherently exploitative.
When we consider sex work to be inherently exploitative, it's like what other witnesses have been saying: It infantilizes the people who are doing it and who have chosen to do this work. It makes it seem as if they couldn't have possibly chosen this for themselves, or that they need to be rescued.