![]() ![]() These harms disproportionately impact marginalized sex workers including female, Indigenous and street-involved sex workers, who face the highest rates of violence and murder in our country. We join other sex worker, research, and legal experts across the country and urge the Government of Canada to follow the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision and support decriminalization of sex work as a critical evidence-based approach to ensuring the safety, health, and human rights of sex workers.Ī large body of scientific evidence from Canada, Sweden and Norway (where clients and third parties are criminalized), and globally clearly demonstrates that criminal laws targeting the sex industry have overwhelmingly negative social, health, and human rights consequences to sex workers, including increased violence and abuse, stigma, HIV and inability to access critical social, health and legal protections. The proposed legislation is not scientifically grounded and evidence strongly suggests that it would recreate the same social and health-related harms of current criminalization. We, the undersigned, are profoundly concerned that the Government of Canada is considering the introduction of new legislation to criminalize the purchasing of sex. Re: Evidence-Based Call for Decriminalization of Sex Work in Canada and Opposition to Criminalizing the Purchasing of Sex ![]() Elizabeth May, MP, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, Jean-François Fortin, MP, Interim Leader of the Bloc Québécois, Justin Trudeau, MP, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Thomas Mulcair, MP, Leader of the Official Opposition, the New Democratic Party of Canada, Stephen Harper, Prime Minister, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, More than 300 Canadian academics and researchers have issued the following open letter: ![]()
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