Perspectives
In courtrooms and shelters across Canada, a hidden crisis unfolds. Gender-based violence traps hundreds of thousands of Canadian women in dangerous situations and economic precarity—not because they lack the courage or skills to escape, but because they lack the financial means.
With several provincial elections on the horizon and ongoing discussions about poverty reduction strategies, it’s time to shift the conversation. A Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) could transform our response to gender-based violence from crisis management to prevention. This is about more than just helping individual survivors; it’s about changing an economic system that makes violence profitable for abusers and impossible to escape for victims.
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