“…The PCEPA also makes it illegal for workers to communicate their services in a public place next to a school ground, playground, or daycare center, having greater negative impact on more economically disadvantaged sex workers, including Indigenous and transgender sex workers, and those with problematic substance use (Benoit et al, 2009 ; Canadian Public Health Association, 2014 ; Krusi et al, 2012 ; Kunimoto, 2018 ; Lyons et al, 2017 ; Orchard, Farr, Macphail, Wender, & Young, 2012 ). In essence, the PCEPA is one of the most extensive instruments of criminalization globally (O’Doherty & Waters, 2019 ), and leaves sex workers in a precarious victim-criminal position (Majic, 2014 ).…”