Daily Xtra quoted Becki Ross, a UBC sociology professor, for a story on the City of Vancouver avoiding issuing a formal apology for forcing sex workers from the city’s West End several decades ago.
Ross said Mayor Gregor Robertson missed an opportunity to stand with indigenous sex workers by not officially apologizing.
“I think the mayor’s refusal is a measure of the tenacity and stubbornness of whorephobia,” Ross says.
