I'll answer that question as briefly as I can, and I may rely on referring to one of the case samples we submitted. There are so many remedies, as we said. But which one is the most effective and the most cost-efficient?
I believe we have to look at the human infrastructure. To give an example, I'm a person with three university degrees, and I know there's a push that says that education is the sole way to deal with poverty. I'm here to say that that would be one of the options, but I'm also on disability, and I'm one of the poorest in Canada. So how does somebody who has three university degrees live in such a state of poverty? It has nothing to do with my lack of initiative. I did have a civil service job, and what happened was that a total sum of people who were not properly qualified in infrastructure made decisions that put me into permanent disability, disability being both physical, emotional, spiritual, and financial.
So I'm now dependent on a system that I used to work for. There's something very degrading when you have to take a moment out of your day to cry because you know how to improve your life, but the system and the people working in the system, the civil servants, are putting barriers up to stop you from getting to that place of maximum potential.