Thank you.
Some things that would be most beneficial would be the creation of other actual viable options like furthering their education, job skills, and job opportunities, as well as better housing options and opportunities, just learning a life other than normalized abuse, having cultural opportunities, experiencing their communities in different ways where they get to be active as healthy, contributing members who can reap the benefits of being within the community. That has economic options as well. Welfare just doesn't pay the bills. There's nothing, at the end of the day, for anybody who does need to be on OW, or Ontario Works, programs. There's just not enough there, and they need something more than to resort to selling their bodies for paying the rent at the end of the month.
As Ms. Emily Symons mentioned, these are last-minute choices here. I have to pay my rent or I'll be out at the end of the month; my kids need $100 for a school program, so I'll just go out and pull one trick. That one trick, they might not come home from, sir. That might be the last trick they pull, so we need to have options other than being born with a body that can be purchased by somebody who's willing to purchase it.