Justice committee  Pardon me, I'm very allergic to fluorescent lights. I was told the lighting in here would be halogen, which is not true. So I will do my best here. With this bill, you are going to drive us so far underground and make us work under such difficult conditions, with many more peop

Justice committee  One sentence...?

Justice committee  SPOC's position is to let the laws that the Supreme Court struck down expire, and that consensual adult sex work should be governed by employment and labour laws. Thank you.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Yes. I believe the Supreme Court struck, and for a very good reason—25,000 pages worth of reasons, really—

Justice committee  What is Chief Justice McLachlin referring to?

Justice committee  What do I think...?

Justice committee  She did mention that, “if it so chooses”—and obviously you do so choose. It's not a necessary thing for you to do. But I think it's extremely important to scrap this bill in its entirety, and if you're going to do this, come at it from a different approach.

Justice committee  Bring sex workers to the table, but for real. The sex workers were not consulted.

Justice committee  Do I agree with the statement?

Justice committee  Yes, it does have the right to do so.

Justice committee  I agree that it has the right to do so—

Justice committee  —but it must do so in a way that doesn't start killing us all over again.

Justice committee  That's right.

Justice committee  Well, it does so already. There are many laws on the books that deal with sex work and the exploitation of it. For example, as I opened with, we only challenged one-tenth of the avails law. There's quite a list, almost like a catalogue, of other offences.