Justice committee  No, it's not fair to say that it's not exploitative in most cases. I spoke briefly about cognitive dissonance. We have to learn about trauma bonding as well. Especially when you're in a situation you were brought into through desperation or survival, you have to make the situatio

Justice committee  Thank you for the question. I want to clarify—and it might have been because I had a hard time hearing the translation—that in my original statement I was trying to suggest that we have to stop saying that sex work and trafficking are completely separate issues. As far as I am

Justice committee  To answer your question about Bill C-36, I think we need to keep it. I briefly touched on this but I think it would help the current workers who keep hearing that sex workers are marginalized and in survival mode and for multiple reasons unable to move beyond that survival mode.

Justice committee  I don't agree with that statement. I believe that police officers deserve to have a complete understanding of the mental, emotional, psychological and cognitive processes of the people who they will be offering aid to. I totally hear and understand and have heard from people in

Justice committee  I think it's fair to say that if there are barriers to access in one area, say the U.S., and you don't have barriers in Canada, people are going to go where there are fewer barriers to access what they're looking for, which is the purchase of sex. Decriminalization is a short-ter

Justice committee  Thank you for all your kind words. I would love to speak to that. My area of focus is in prevention education. I think we need to highlight the importance of widespread education, not just for police and not just for certain areas, but for entire communities. I think that any

Justice committee  Thank you for having me here today. We know it is imperative to hear directly from survivors and those involved in the commercial sex industry. I want to highlight that hearing from people who are, were or ended up as unwilling bodies in the industry is far more difficult, not b