Advocate says 'court is too steeped in stigma against sex workers to listen'
The Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform is vowing to continue the fight against Canada’s sex-work laws, saying that they plan to elevate their case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada if needed after a Toronto judge Monday ruled that the nation’s criminal laws on sex work are constitutional.
Butterfly, a Toronto-based organization with over 10 years of experience supporting Asian and migrant sex workers, says PCEPA isolates workers from support systems while simultaneously allowing for police surveillance and criminalization of the industry.
“We’re asking for our constitutional right to bodily autonomy, safety, security and equality,” she said. Do says migrant and sex worker communities need their own ways of mutual aid and collaboration, but this is often intentionally misinterpreted by police as exploitative. If charged for sex work, immigrant and migrant sex workers face deportation under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations .
Historical continuity of dismissal Wong says the decision shows a pattern of excluding migrant sex workers from society stemming from the first race and gender-based exclusion in Canadian immigration law, the 1885 Chinese Immigration Act, where Section 12 specifically addresses Chinese prostitutes. Wong adds the court repeatedly sides against the advocates, submitted research and sex workers when there’s conflicting views to diminish their evidence, referencing the dismissal of Lam’s affidavit.
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