THE “Resources” VS IPV/DV -By Toni-Lee Danso
Does anybody ever wonder why? Why are people that you know are in precarious situations actually stay? Why are people that you know who are unhappy where they are at continue to stay? Why is your friend who’s always talking to you about the domestic and emotional abuse that happens to her continuing to stay in that situation? Why doesn’t she just leave? Why is a teenage boy who is abused by his parents constantly, and deprived of basic necessities as punishment still staying in the house? Why doesn’t he leave? Why don’t they just use “All the resources” That we have in Canada to protect and provide for these people? It’s because there are no resources for them. It’s always this continuous assumption that Canada has endless shelters, endless capacity, endless funding, endless subsidized housing … And that everybody is just able to pick up the phone and be in a new house by tomorrow. Like they can pack their bag and start a new life tomorrow...