I think it's hard to say categorically, but given the circumstances under which these kinds of incidents might occur, it wouldn't be impossible to imagine, as I was saying earlier, that a woman with mental health issues or addictions or someone who, for whatever reason, is not really capable, shall we say, of holding her own in an interaction with a health care provider, might have it proposed to her that she undergo a sterilization procedure. At the end of the day, what may have seemed to the provider as consent might not in reality have been consent as one would think consent should be managed. I think, without suggesting anything about the scale of what might be going on, it's not impossible to imagine that this is not an issue confined only to indigenous women.
On January 31st, 2019. See this statement in context.