Thank you, Ms. Lavell-Harvard and Mr. Peters, for being here today.
You mentioned earlier that women are being jailed 30 days for stealing food just to survive. A disturbing statistic shows that 35% of women in federal prisons are aboriginal women.
I know it's a large issue, but where are the challenges? The social challenges aside, in terms of poverty and so on, but within the criminal justice system, is it issues like aboriginal women being targeted by police? Is it poor prosecution, lack of diversion, or lack of a judiciary that reflects the community? Where are we in the spectrum, and what are the challenges that we need to address? I think this number has been growing over the last couple of decades.