It's entirely along the continuum, from women having an opportunity for education and employment programs.... The Canadian Women's Foundation has made quite an investment in economic development projects for women who are rebuilding their lives from violence. Those are significant investments across Canada into projects where women are getting the training to be able to get the jobs that are at a living wage. There are resources needed for that. There's policy with housing, as well as welfare rates, the income that women do receive.
It's almost as if they're always behind; women are always behind. They're always living day to day. Many women we met across the country in doing our work on sexual exploitation just want to stop doing that. They want to just get ahead, at least get a head start on something. It literally is day by day. They're damned if they do and they're damned if they don't. It's a really hard cycle for them to get out of.