TRADE SECRETS CERTIFICATION

Trade Secrets Guide The Trade Secrets guide and certification process were envisioned by sex industry workers who are invested in the concept of self-governance. This process is intended to ensure that sex industry workers are aware of best practices to operate and industry standards. We believe that standards should come from within the industry and …

Margo Monroe

Margo Monroe  is a well established reputable sex worker, activist and friend. In fact she has taken part in almost every project the BCCEC have coordinated starting with the cooperative development. She also took part in the trade secrets project and continues to be a vital resource for indoor workers when they need help and …

Barb Altman

Barb is originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba but is now a full time Vancouver citizen!! She is a former escort and domme and during her time in the sex industry Barb experienced the full brunt of everything which is wrong with Canada's legal framework which governs our community. Her experiences interacting with a broad spectrum of …

Natasha Potvin

Natasha is a longtime activist from Montreal for sex workers, drug users and people with HIV/Aids. She works currently in harm reduction for Aids Vancouver Island and is the Canadian Aids Network Representative to the UN. She has been active in the sex worker rights movement for over 10 years traveling to conferences and meetings …

Velvet Steele

"Velvet is a staunch crusader for the rights of trans people, and sex workers. A life of social activism and advocacy that began when she won the right to access healthcare for people who are trans in British Columbia. Her ongoing work with the LGBTQ2+ community has strengthened her resolve to fiercely fight for the …

Susan Davis

Susan is a 32 year sex working veteran and 16 years sex workers rights advocate. She has worked with government and police towards safer communities for sex working people. She has appeared in the media over 400 times and has given evidence or testified to 2 Supreme Court cases, the Commission of Inquiry on missing …

Complaint to the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying : RE Joy Smith

Thank you for taking the time to speak with me today. As I said I am frustrated with the lobbying efforts of Joy Smith on behalf of herself and those people who support the abolition of prostitution. She ceased to be a member of parliament on October 18, 2015 and as such it has not been 5 …