Hiring security and drivers for women who work in the sex-trade was also legalized. Even though living off of the avails of a prostitute is still illegal, Ray worries that legalized brothel houses will make it harder to prove that there is still exploitation going on. The decision to legalize brothels was met with as much joy from sex-trade workers who believe the law will make their work environment safer as disdain from ex-sex trade workers who believe it will make the situation worse.
Perrier is an activist for anti-prostitution who helped create the website SexTrade She started her life in prostitution in Thunder Bay at the age of 12 and knows all too well the harsh reality of the sex-trade. She knows many of them to be survivors of childhood traumas.
Ray also said that it should be illegal to buy sex and not to sell it. Both Perrier and Ray agree that colonialism had a profound effect on both Aboriginal women entering the world of prostitution and the Johns who still prey on this race of women for sex.
The report states that theft of the land and destruction of traditional ways for the Aboriginal people of Canada left them in extreme poverty. According to the report, extreme poverty in any culture is associated with a high rate of prostitution.
Edward J. Hedican wrote in his book Applied Anthropology in Canada that Aboriginal people in Canada suffer more so than any other people because they are a part of a controlled, exploited and colonized race who face many barriers. Perrier said that when she was working as a prostitute, she saw fellow Aboriginal girls disappearing from the streets and that nobody looked for them.
