Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My problem with following Chris is that I always want to use all my time arguing with him instead of talking to the witnesses.
I come from the prairie region. Winnipeg is my riding. I can't help but note, and I appreciate that you included it in your report, the shocking, alarming, disgraceful overrepresentation of aboriginal people in the jails, at least in the prairie region.
It's my concern, it's my belief—in fact I know for a fact—that those numbers will only be exacerbated by the current tough on crime legislation that is coming down the pike. The very nature of the crimes they've identified are the very types of crimes that will increase and lengthen sentences for aboriginal people.
Can I ask, first, just as a brief question, what, roughly, is the population or the percentage of the population in the prairie region that is aboriginal in terms of inmates?