Thank you.
Minister Nicholson, one of the things we've discovered in our research and our travels is that violence against aboriginal women isn't perpetuated just in the larger world, in the community; there's also the violence that's perpetuated by government. I'm referring to the report from the correctional investigator, Mr. Howard Sapers. He talks about the fact that aboriginal women make up an inordinate number of those who are in prison, that many of them are mentally ill, that in fact 30% of the women in prison are aboriginal despite the population being about 4% of the Canadian community.
These women have been sexually abused. They're subjected to a management protocol that essentially puts them in isolation. I'm very concerned.
Mr. Sapers' report recommended that there be a deputy commissioner for aboriginal corrections, and recommended very strongly that the management protocol be rescinded.
Now, I hope you're not going to say that this is somebody else's bailiwick, because you're the Minister of Justice. What can you do to guarantee justice for those aboriginal women who are suffering in solitary, who are not receiving treatment?