Well, I certainly don't support C-36, which continues to criminalize people in prostitution while a) providing a ridiculous pittance in support for alternatives (the equivalent of "reconversion measures" for other harmful industries such as asbestos) and b) not attacking the networks involved in trafficking and forcing vulnerable people (often minors, and in far too many cases, Aboriginal or racialized) into the trade. But I'm also not as sanguine about the trade as some others here, or Antonia, whom I value very much.
That is the most divisive issue within the women's movement since "wages for housework". The CSN is abolitionist, and certainly not a friend of fundamentalism, particularly of the evangelical variety. I think perhaps eventually we will arrive at a different solution, as was the case with the wages for housework stuff - more leaves and support to parents of young children, while not consigning women to the demeaning and limiting "housewife" role. I tend to discuss it as little as possible, as I hate the Cons, and fundies, but am also horrified by progressives thinking it is cool to have a class of human beings used as receptacles for men's fuck-ups. I've worked with Indigenous street people many of whom were in the trade. It isn't pretty, it is a horrible fate for a human being.
