Bill C-36 part-2
The policy states that it is an offence to take money from someone who uses sexual services to generate income. Also, it is an offence to rent or provide shelter or safe space for workers to practice safely. The fallacy of the argument is that it protects workers from exploitation and sex trafficking. A physical place of work that provides the necessary accommodations for safe practice, (cameras, security guards, transportation) is made illegal. Even a caring adult who simply wants to provide a place to work in a safer area becomes complicit. They can't even accept rent. So where does that leave the worker? What position does it place those who care for them? This policy literally makes safety illegal.
So obviously the solution is to take the work outside…right?
Nah… well….
s. 213(1) 1 Stopping or impeding traffic for the purpose of offering, providing or obtaining sexual services for consideration is a summary (minor) offence.
s. 213 (1.1) Communicating for the purpose of offering or providing sexual services for consideration in a public place, or in any place that is, is in view of, or is next to a school ground, playground or daycare centre is a summary offence
Canada says you can do BUT you have to do it without talking to your clients or stopping traffic.
So, unless you're ill at charades, have mastered interpretive dance or just so happen to be telepathic it's not happening…
This part of the bill forces operations into the very exploitative underworld it is supposed to dismantle. How exactly is this supposed to prevent forcing workers into the hands of slimy opportunists?
If a client come at you with some big American Psycho energy how do you report them to law enforcement without incriminating yourself? Is protection under law not a human right? or are you really trying to say that sex workers are not human?
Sway don’t got the answers
But We do.
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