Show Me the Money: Erin’s Law, Federal Education, and Canada’s $97 Trillion Opportunity
You want people to move?
Show them the money.
I’m about to break down why education needs to be federal, why Erin’s Law belongs in the Constitution, and why protecting kids from sexual violence isn’t just “moral” — it’s the smartest business decision this country will ever make.
Who Am I?
I’ve got papers on my wall — degrees, diplomas, certificates. Pretty on paper. Doesn’t define me.
My real education came from life: 31 years hustling money before I ever set foot in a classroom, and 58 years listening to how money decides who matters. I grew up in a house where your worth was your wage. Breakfast: “You’re here to work.” Nights: silence — the kind only someone surviving child sexual violence knows.
And yeah, my head is packed with Indigenous teachings, Eastern philosophies, and enough hope to fill a stadium. Why? Because I had to rebuild myself from the street up.
Try surviving 15 years of child sexual violence and coming out swinging, ready to contribute to society for the next 47 years. I live with C-PTSD — not just PTSD, the system only recognises the basic kind — because big pharma wants us medicated on anti-depressants that, for 20 years, experts have concluded don’t fix a damn thing. Add an injury, a death, a divorce, a layoff, or a firing, and suddenly full-on C-PTSD is running the show. That’s why ending child sexual violence deserves serious thought.
Right now, as far as we know, 10 million Canadians are fighting to survive the aftermath of child sexual violence. That’s 25% of our nation struggling to Breathe the Night Out. Every night, child sexual violence doesn’t end when you celebrate your 18th birthday. Without healing, it stays with you. For far too many, it is what eventually kills them — sometimes years after the last attack. I’ve personally buried two brothers and one nephew, lost as a direct result of this violence. I am writing these words for them especially.
Do I have your attention yet?
Erin’s Law vs. Kids in the Know
Erin’s Law (Ontario, 2024):
- Every publicly funded school must teach kids how to recognise, stop, and report sexual abuse.
- Teachers get trained. Parents get info. Kids get language and tools.
Erin’s Law has some major gaps, but it’s a start.
Where are the community centres, churches, police services, health care providers?
STOP. Show me the money. Always bring this back to money. I learned from the best…
I had two grandfathers. One talked only about money and his staff. The other talked only about cows, land and his community. Both were successful.
When businessman grandfather died, everyone at his funeral called him a “Great Man.” Growing up, I listened to him brag about how he exploited people — like it was his proudest achievement.
When farmer grandpa died, everyone talked about how loving he was. At the Sunday dinner table, after he finished with the cows — his farming business selling milk — he turned his attention to his land. He fed the cows, sure, but he also protected the land, knowing that land and water keep the planet alive. He probably learned that from an Indigenous person or two. And he cared for his community too. He did it because he saw it as his responsibility. He couldn’t understand why others didn’t see the value in that simple principle.
In many ways, he saw the big picture far more clearly than the other grandfather I had to listen to every day.
Farmer grandpa — and Grandma, who was his real teacher, with only a grade 3 education and a factory job from age 10 — showed me that it is possible to move through the world with love.
I learned from both. Thank you, Grandfather and Grandpa — your lessons shaped me. I strive to show what that can look like in the world.
Back to Money
I’m pulling from businessman grandfather here: Show me the money.
Let’s get real — count every civil servant in Canada: federal, provincial, municipal. The government is the largest employer in the country. Street level here — how the hell are they not showing up?
We pay for these people. Nothing is free. I want them to have a job, a pay cheque, a life — but where are the results?
Back to Erin’s Law: where are the mobile units? The buses, the experts walking into communities, tent cities, meeting all people where they actually live, not just where it’s convenient?
Erin’s Law is a framework. Frameworks don’t protect kids unless we actually move, actually show up, and actually give a damn.
Kids in the Know (National Non-Profit)
- Teaches similar stuff, K–12, and does good work.
- But it’s voluntary. And it dumps most responsibility on teachers and kids.
- Where the hell are the parents? The community? The system?
Here’s the Truth:
We only have a non-profit doing this work because children stopped being “valuable” the moment they were banned from factory labour in 1872. And honestly, I’d sue the Canadian government today if I could — my grandma was working in a box factory in the 1930s, along with many of her 20 siblings. So where exactly were those child labour laws then?
Don’t think this is some problem from a hundred years ago. Child slave labour is alive and well today.
No profit? No priority. It didn’t disappear — it just went underground. I can’t give you a number on that one. Why? We don’t count it. Yep, we don’t bother counting it. Why? Then we would have to address it.
In the 2025 report, Public Safety Canada found that 82% of reporting organisations — government and private — identified parts of their supply chains that carry a risk of forced or child labour.
Always be suspicious when a government, or anyone for that matter, moves away from hard numbers and dollar signs and starts throwing out percentages. Public Safety Canada, the civil servants, can’t give me a hard number here. Why? Maybe they don’t want us to know. Maybe they haven’t bothered to back up their data with real research. A percentage of what? How much money are we talking?
This is another example of hiding in plain sight. If this problem were a business, the bank would shut you down. Revenue Canada would audit the hell out of you.
The Economic Argument
Yeah, I used ChatGPT for the math — relax. Judges are using AI to write their rulings now, so if I’m cheating, I’m cheating with the best of them.
Average lifetime earnings in Canada (full-time, ages 21–65):
| Education | Annual | Lifetime |
| High school | $42K | $1.848M |
| College | $50K | $2.2M |
| Bachelor | $65K | $2.86M |
| Master | $75K | $3.3M |
| PhD | $90K | $3.96M |
- Average lifetime earnings per person: $2.8336M
- Population: 40.9 million
- Total economic potential: $115.9 trillion
- Canada’s actual net worth: $19 trillion (always factor in the debt, it has to be paid)
- Difference: $96.9 trillion
That’s not a rounding error — that’s a national failure.
Every kid we protect from sexual violence keeps more of that $97 trillion on the table instead of losing it to trauma, poverty, addiction, incarceration, and systems that cost billions to fix what should’ve been prevented.
The Problem Today
- Erin’s Law is 14 months old. Out of 72 school boards, only four have actually started implementing it.
- Private schools? Over 1,200. Not required to follow it.
- Federal Ministry of Education? Doesn’t exist.
The closest thing is Indigenous Services Canada — and let’s be real, that’s more about control and money than actual learning.
How come schools can get around to it whenever they feel like it? Where are the deadlines? Where is the accountability? Time and again, taxpayers are footing the bill while civil servants ‘run the clock,’ collecting paycheques and pensions as the work drags on. We pay for this racket — and it’s time someone demanded results.
And here’s a Big Fucking Problem:
Alberta’s Bill 27 (2024)
- Parents now need to “opt in” for anything sex-ed related.
- That’s more than a rollback — it’s a strategy.
- In 1944, Ontario brought in a sex-ed program — they called it “social hygiene” because the word sex makes people squirm. So how is Alberta getting away with this in 2025?
- When you restrict knowledge, you restrict power.
- And it looks way too much like the kind of slow-step control that killed Roe v. Wade in the U.S.
When governments want control, they start with bodies — especially the small ones.
You control children, you control parents, and you control society.
It’s a hunt. You target the weakest in the herd.
But we don’t have to let it happen.
My Proposal
Use the Constitution
Section 91(27): Federal power to protect children from abuse.
Section 91(24): Federal power over civil and political rights.
Add some new clauses to the constitution
New Clause 30: Name child sexual violence directly. Yes, this gets its own clause. We have to start calling it what it is. No more “child abuse” or “child assault”—those can be for name-calling and punching.
New Clause 31: Make Erin’s Law mandatory—for kids, parents, teachers, policymakers, community members, hospitals, tent cities, and yes, you civil servants. (I would make them write a test in essay format—no multiple-choice bullshit. I want proof they read the material and put something into action.) And don’t forget tent cities.
New Clause 32: Create a Federal Ministry of Education (This might have to be a new section—bigger than a clause. What do I know? I am not a constitutional lawyer / Supreme Court Justice. I’m just a citizen who has survived enough, seen enough, read enough, and wants to end child sexual violence.) (And yes, lots of civil servants are going to dig in here. Strikes will happen because all they care about is their job. Well, maybe they can work here.)
- Provinces keep their flavour.
- Child protection becomes national—same standard, same expectations.
- Send trained experts into schools, homes, communities—anywhere kids live.
Accountability
- Real numbers.
- Real consequences.
- Real deadlines.
- No political bullshit.
Bottom Line
- Kids aren’t “minor” — not morally, not economically.
- Canada’s combined earning power is $115.9 trillion.
- We’re only capturing $19 trillion.
- The loss is $97 trillion — and preventable.
Stop playing political ping-pong with kids’ lives.
Follow the money.
Use the law.
Protect our children.
Give us the curriculum.
Give us the experts.
Meet families where they’re at — homes, churches, community centres, hospitals, schools, courts, the streets.
Set a timeline and actually do it.
If you don’t?
You’re fired.
How the hell is that so hard?
Personal note to the dude I voted for on April 28, 2025: Why? As much as I love Jagmeet Singh and believe in his heart and brain, I knew he wasn’t ready for our neighbours’ wrath. Fuck, he would NOT have been recognised as a leader even because of his skin colour and what he wears on his head. Disgustingly sad but true. We needed a white man who would be permitted into the White House, who could talk numbers and came with the power of the banks. This is an economic war we’re in. We needed the money guy.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, you do numbers. You got voted in for your ability to handle numbers. Sink your teeth into this one, Mark — $97 trillion is there for the taking. Now get to work and make us proud.
You’ll make more money, Mark. What a result that would be for you!! And what a result for the 40 million Canadians counting on you. I even wrote a little blurb for you: Because of my brilliance, courage, and determination, Canada earned an additional $97 trillion. Put that on your résumé.
I get to call myself an expert in career education — I’ve got the papers and the work history to back it up. So there you go, my friend. Open with that line everywhere you go. I’d even recommend tattooing $97 trillion somewhere on your body, because that is something to be fucking proud of, my fellow Canadian brother.
Join us, Mark. Together we heal. Together we fight to end child sexual violence with justice, law and education. How does it start? It starts with love.
Reference List
- Public Safety Canada. (2025). Annual Report on the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act. Government of Canada. https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca
- Stats Canada. (2023). Human Trafficking in Canada: Police-Reported Data. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca
- World Vision Canada. (2017). Canada’s Child & Forced Labour Problem. https://www.worldvision.ca
- Government of Canada. (2024). Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act. https://www.canada.ca
- Canadian Centre for Child Protection. (2024). Kids in the Know Program Overview. https://www.protectchildren.ca