What are your thoughts on a sex workers co-op with an indoor massage parlour?

Susan Davis
B.C. Coalition of Experiential Women

"Sex workers do not support red-light districts. Nobody does. All we're asking for here is an opportunity to determine for ourselves what a safe work environment looks like, and to stabilize the people that are dying left and right in the East End because of these abolitionist attitudes."

Peter Ladner
NPA city councillor

"The political difficulties would be huge. I don't know how it's different from Jamie Lee Hamilton's [former] place, for example. It was kind of like a cooperative. Just because you're calling it a massage parlour sounds like wordsmithing to get around the fact that it would be effectively a bawdy house."

Ellen Woodsworth
Former COPE councillor

"The best thing we can do to protect sex-trade workers is to decriminalize prostitution. This report makes no reference to that. But if we're going to talk about a cooperative for sex-trade workers, that's the first thing we have to do. And then it's up to them as workers how they want to work."

David Bornman
Pastor, West Coast Christian Fellowship

"First of all, the idea is against our Criminal Code. The issue of how we govern the issues around the sex trade needs to be debated and decided by our MPs before communities implement illegal solutions of their own. I am concerned for the dignity of human life."