Listen to Sex Workers: Kill Bill C-36

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By Clay Nikiforuk | June 17, 2014

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Itâ??s a sunny Saturday, and in a park in the heart of downtown Montreal, music blares, punctuated by the occasional peal of laughter. Children play, and as camera crews look on, a colourful crowd dances.

Carefree as they might appear, the message they are sending is dead serious. Their subversive celebration is meant to decry a dangerous, even deadly, new bill infringing on the human and labour rights of sex workers.

The second National Day of Action in Solidarity With Sex Workers, held across Canada on June 14, brought sex workers and their allies together to protest the Conservative governmentâ??s Bill C-36. In Montreal, it took the form of a dance-a-thon.

To the despair, but not surprise, of many academics, activists, allies and sex workers, Bill C-36 proposes a criminalization of sex work that is as wide-ranging as it is vaguely worded.

It seeks to criminalize sex workersâ?? clients at the expense of sex worker safety, to criminalize communication in public (where a minor could reasonably be expected to be present) rather than institute reasonable reforms and to criminalize online advertisements instead of creating a safe workplace for sex workers.

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