Here are a few examples of the things the City of Toronto is investing in right now and working on.
We have ever more programs focused on youth employment to make sure that kids who are getting out of high school or vocational training or even university can be easily integrated into the job market. We work with our workforce development strategy, which was approved a few years ago. The focus is working on both sides, supply and demand, to make sure that they knit and that everyone benefits from those economic opportunities.
We have a social procurement program, which I just mentioned recently. The idea of a social procurement program is to channel a portion of the city's economic power—or more directly, the money the city spends every year procuring all sorts of services and goods—to organizations that employ mostly, or that provide opportunities for, low-income residents and vulnerable populations.
The transit fare equity pass that the executive committee just approved last week also comes within that package of programs. It will offer to low-income residents looking for jobs, trying to access services, or trying to access programs that can have long-term positive impacts on their lives the opportunity to do so without being impeded by the cost of transit.
Finally, one thing we're working hard on as well is human service integration. It's the idea that our housing services, our child care services, and our social assistance and employment services ought to be integrated. Residents need to be able to walk into one city office and receive all those supports at once and not be sent to different doors or be asked to call different phone lines or fill out different forms. We're trying to integrate these.