In the Senate hearings into prostitution that year, Claude Boucher of "Bus des Femmes", a sex worker support group, described how sex workers sell sex to survive, unable to make ends meet on social security or the minimum wage. To treat them as criminals, she argued, would just make them more vulnerable. ""Cette loi n'est même pas une loi d'ordre moral, c'est une loi contre les exclus, contre les plus vulnérables"" (This law is not even a public morals law, it is a law against those who are excluded, against the most vulnerable)