Yes, the one example that I gave to your co-committee member was when I was stabbed at work. I was a stripper and I was stabbed at work by another stripper. I couldn't call the police because I knew that the other stripper was a single mother. I knew that if I called the police, she and her children would also be harmed. I took myself to the hospital. I didn't call the police because I knew that I would be harmed as an indigenous woman. I couldn't apply to the victims compensation board because the law could see my work as being criminalized.
I didn't have access and I didn't have supports. Under Ontario legislation, OSHA, there was no recourse whatsoever. Decriminalization would help with that.