Actually what I was reading during parliament hearing is that Vancouver has already been enforcing the Nordic model the last few years by prosecuting only clients even before the last SCC ruling and Vancouver experience was shown as an evidence that Nordic model failed according to statistics.
In the past Vancouver used to use street stings, undercover female cops posing as street sex workers to decieve & bust johns & john's school.
"It’s illegal to pay for sex in Canada, including Vancouver. But the odds of getting arrested are slim...
"Months later police haven’t said whether or not a single charge has yet been made against a John under Canada’s prostitution laws, Mehat says it’s because the city is pressured not to act."
http://www.cknw.com/2016/06/14/draft-the-prostitution-trade-in-vancouver/
"As Vancouver fails to enforce prostitution laws, Trudeau government needs to declare its stance on legalizing sex work...
"In Vancouver, legalizers have been winning for a long time and are still, even with the Criminal Code changes..."
"Where there hasn’t been any debate for 15 years is at Vancouver City Hall, where councils have long pursued the stealth legalization of the sex trade. It dates back to the city’s 2001 harm-reduction model in the “Four Pillars Approach to Drug Problems,” which included a recommendation that prostitution be decriminalized....
"That same year, the Vancouver Police Department adopted its “Sex Work Enforcement Guidelines.” Since then, not a single person has been arrested for buying sexual services, not even after the new prostitution laws were enacted in 2014.
"The guidelines’ only reference to sex buyers is that police will enforce the laws related to the abuse and sexual exploitation of children and will “monitor and maintain intelligence reports to identify and track potentially violent sex industry consumers/exploitive abusers.”
http://vancouversun.com/opinion/col...-to-declare-its-stance-on-legalizing-sex-work