Justice committee  No.

Justice committee  In terms of their instigation of physical violence, less than 5% have presented physical violence in varying forms. We measure violence in about 20 or 25 different ways, reflecting a continuum, everything from just arguments and verbal discussions all the way up to violent abuse—

Justice committee  Yes. Our most recent study is a 360-degree view of the sex industry, where we've looked at sex workers, sex buyers, the intimate partners of sex workers, managers, owners, operators, and regulators—

Justice committee  At this juncture, especially under the current legal regime, it would be impossible in Canada.

Justice committee  Absolutely. I look at all the range of demographics, including their non-commercial relationships and aspects of their gender and sexuality. No, we don't match up with people who do have non-commercial partners. People who have non-commercial partners are represented in a variety

Justice committee  It's the focus I've spoken of today. I have also participated in, as either a co-investigator or as an assistant, at least another nine projects around the sex industry in general.

Justice committee  I've done hundreds of hours of ethnographic observation in various virtual and physical spaces over the course of time.

Justice committee  Right. In the two projects that I referred to today, there were 50 in-depth interviews and a total of 2,004 surveys.

Justice committee  There's no way that anybody studying any portion of the sex industry can guarantee the truth of any account, whether it be a sex worker, sex buyer, manager, owner, operator, policeman, lawyer, or politician. What we can do is construct our instruments in such a way that we phrase

Justice committee  We've done that in the past. In my first study, in 1996, we compared people who purchased sex with members of the general population, males and females. We found very few statistically significant differences. Subsequently, I have focused specifically on getting at individuals

Justice committee  No, I absolutely do not, particularly when we talk about.... If we take seriously the goal of ending demand and changing attitudes and behaviours around the purchase of sexual services, I don't see how that's going to happen with $20 million. If we are going to do this—and I do

Justice committee  Adult, consensual, sexual exchanges.

Justice committee  I've thought about that but from all the information I've ever seen that's choosing to study a fraction of an industry at the expense of the majority of the industry.

Justice committee  I use the term “consent” very guardedly because the whole notion of consent, in and of itself, has to be discussed, understood, and defined more adequately. I do believe, purely on the basis of the research that I've done, that the vast majority of, particularly, the off-street s

Justice committee  I have submitted it as part of a team brief. I will be submitting a second brief tomorrow.