Status of Women committee  Ms. Kelly was speaking about the involvement in indigenous communities in section 84 releases. From a board's perspective, we have a culturally responsive format for hearings. They are elder-assisted hearings. When we last appeared, I spoke a little bit about that. It's a format

Status of Women committee  Certainly. Good morning. The elder-assisted hearing consists of two portions. There's a ceremony portion and a business portion. My colleague mentioned that we contract and work with elders all across Canada. We have elders who facilitate the elder-assisted hearings. They perfo

Status of Women committee  I would say that one way the board is looking at increasing the number of elder-assisted hearings is to go into the institutions—we call that “inreach”—where we speak to front-line staff and to indigenous offenders. We talk about this format. We talk about what to expect during p

Status of Women committee  Yes, it is.

Status of Women committee  It is on our website, yes. If I may, I would say that we refocused our inreach a couple of years ago. What we found when we refocused that was an increase in the number of requests for elder-assisted hearings. This is something we have discussed continuing, so we are now looking