One of our witnesses last week was dealing with the issue of the number or the percentage of black Canadians—I think he was referring to males here—versus white Canadians who are charged with and found guilty of assorted offences. He noted that in the kinds of offences where there is the maximum amount of judicial discretion, that's where we see the greatest disequilibrium. I'm not sure that's the right word—the greatest divergence might be a better way to say it. I want to be careful I'm not putting words in his mouth, but I believe what he was saying was that this indicates an underlying bias of some sort in the minds of judges that carries over into the sentencing.
He was talking about a different group, of course, as were Stokely Carmichael and his co-author, but does that capture some of what is going on vis-à-vis aboriginal Canadians with regard to the justice system?