Sex work advocates are calling for the federal Liberal government to revisit Canada’s prostitution law (Bill C-36) which observers say criminalizes prostitution.
Claudyne Chevrier, PhD candidate in Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, is researching and writing an ethnography of sex work in Winnipeg and is one of many experts who want the law changed.
Chevrier is also a member of the Winnipeg Working Group, a coalition opposed to Bill C-36, a law that attempts to combat sex trafficking but one that critics say places sex workers in jeopardy.
Michael Welch and Karen Gallagher of CKUW 95.9 FM interviewed Chevrier recently about her latest attempts to keep sex workers safe:
