WHEREAS the creation of the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) agenda gave birth to hostile architecture, a detrimental form of urban exclusionism. By using hostile design typologies, cities can render public spaces unusable to undesirable citizens, and erase images of poverty, social decay and public disorder resulting in upper-class homogeneity;

WHEREAS the City of Winnipeg has made a significant effort to reduce mobility barriers with free transit for children 11 and under, and the low-income bus pass program;

WHEREAS menstruation is a biological process experienced by most young girls and women, it is not a choice, and access to menstrual hygiene products and information about menstruation is a basic human right;