Ok I came to the hobby pretty much as c-36 settled in so I do not know how it was before. But i can say how it is right now.
On the Montreal agency and merb advertising indy front all is absolutely amazing. Fucking awesome and really this makes Montreal one of the best location in the world to do this.
On the pure indy scene from sites like backpage, humpchies, AI and 123 it's a fucking jungle. But I must admit I must have developed tarzan's skills as I am having some really great encounters from that jungle.
I will confirm that before Bill C-36 Backpage sites were nothing like now. Sure before there were fake ads, bait and switch service (girls saying they do GFE but once they get the money they change to non GFE), some with fake pics. But clients getting threatened with violence in an attempt to extort them this was rare but since Bill C-36 using violence is now common. All you see now are fake pics, bait and switch service... This has all now been taken to the extreme. Bill C-36 is doing what it was intended to do and that is to make the environment so inhospitable that demand would drop. In the tity bar scene mileage dropped across the board. The city going on its anti-prostitution campaigns from club to club to threaten to shut them down. So yes things changed a lot. I predict in ten years or so that the scene will be going the same way as the US scene. Everything will be deep underground and you have to know where to go. Prices will go sky high.