How many jobs have situations where people have been abused, harassed and exploited? How many jobs include disgusting tasks with very little pay? At the same time every job has it's good stories, its happy people who enjoy doing what they do. Why make victims out of people who do not consider themselves victims and attempt to take away their livelihood because a few who could have gotten the help if they only asked? Coercion, forced confinement, assault as far as I know have always been crimes, no?
I agree.
So I guess our argument is that life sucks everywhere so we shouldn't worry about one group in particular?
Of course that logic is false.
As for turning volunteers into victims...well, their rationale is plainly stated. This is plainly a paternalistic attitude, which seems fundamentally inconsistent with the traditional CPC view of lower case "g" government and respecting individual rights. As I've said before, it's hypocrisy plain and simple.
They are not prevented from cleaning windows for a living. They simply have to do it at a car wash instead of in the middle of the street. Even if prostitution was legal the government could decide where and how it is possible to do safely and that would be constitutionnal.
These woes of those witnesses happened under the old laws. Which were recognized by the SCC as creating and exacerbating the very conditions these witnesses describes. They are using the problems caused by the law to justify the need for a law. There is always some potential danger, but this can be made a lot safer with good laws (inherently degrading and harmful means that it is always so in every single case, not just risky). People are allowed to choose the kind of risk they want to take in their job and the point is the law cannot needlessly increase the danger. For the cases where a pimp forces someone to take these risk, there are already laws against that.
What would be your reply if body rub parlours, providing HJ, were allowed by not incalls? Wouldn't SPs still be permitted to "clean windows", so to speak?
I'm not sure if you were watching the same evidence I saw. Pimping was illegal before and now it is not. What were those ex-sexworkers complaining about with C36???
So people should be allowed to choose their risks assumed? Why do we have motorcycle helmet laws? Why seatbelt? Why hardhats and steel toe boots? Clearly the government believes that there are examples in which they should protect citizens from themselves, and we as a society have generally agreed with those examples.
I understand your end goal, and I agree. But this isn't about strict legality. This is about morality.