In 2014 Harper made the selling of sexual services legal and the purchasing of and communicating for sexual services illegal. Not surprisingly it is not working out very well. “Things are definitely getting worse for sex workers. We have to make more and more compromises in terms of our safety so the client feels safe (from arrest).”
Sandra Wesley, the head of Stella, a Montreal-based organization run by and for sex workers, is seen at their offices Thursday, February 13, 2020 in Montreal. The recent killing of a 22-year-old woman in Quebec has focused renewed attention on Canada’s prostitution laws, which critics say are applied irregularly across the country and only make sex work more dangerous. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
