This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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The Conservative government is facing accusations of having had rushed its prostitution bill through Parliament in order to ensure that the bill is passed into law this fall. The accusations are being laid by the opponents of the bill as it gets ready to be heard by a Senate committee for three days on Tuesday before being turned into legislation known as C-36.
According to the critics, the hearings are tilted in favour of witnesses who support the bill. It was highlighted that Justice Minister Peter MacKay, who is also leading the hearings on Tuesday, has not adequately consulted lawyers, academics and sex-workers who have are calling the bill deeply flawed. Litigation director of Pivot Legal Society, i.e. a Vancouver group advocating for prostitutes, Katrina Pacey, mentioned in her remarks that “what sex workers are asking for is a proper and thorough research and evaluation process before we proceed with new laws.” She added that “we hope the Senate will decide that this process has been too rushed and that C-36 is too risky. Instead, what we are seeing is what looks like a process that’s going to push it through as quickly as possible.”
Whereas on the other hand, Mr. MacKay’s press secretary, Clarissa Lamb, stressed on Monday that prostitution “hurts Canadian communities and the most vulnerable Canadians.” It was stated that “the proposed legislation would protect our communities — in particular women, children, and those who are at risk of being drawn into prostitution — from the dangers associated with prostitution, including violence, drug-related crime, and organized crime.”
The only way to make sex work safe is to make it legal. Harassing workers and/or their customers exposes worker to the police, endless fines and imprisonment, all of the evil effects of a black-market trade and, especially, the need to have protective/exploitative pimps. McKay doesn’t get it, of course, because he doesn’t want to; like the rest of the Harper government, their only objective is to impose their dingbat morality on everyone else.