Good afternoon, Mr. Brock. It's good to see you again.
Yes, it is a very challenging issue, especially in my community here at Six Nations. I know, Mr. Brock, from your former career as a Crown prosecutor in Brantford, you've seen that on a daily basis, because 99% of the time, in the incidents we're dealing with here, the accused is indigenous as well as the victim. I look at the Gladue factors that come up on sentencing and bail hearings. Don't get me wrong. Gladue does have a place in our legal system, but for those repeat serious dangerous offenders charged with various serious offences—firearms offences, domestic violence offences—they are continually being released and having an ankle monitor put on them. Two or three weeks later, they're cutting it off and then they're into the wind.
A prime example is the individual who removed his ankle monitor and later murdered and killed Constable Greg Pierzchala in Hagersville, just outside of my community here. That was a very tragic time for the entire community because my officers were responding to that call as well. One of those officers was my nephew.
Bail reform needs to be drastically improved because continuously we hear the frustrations of those domestic violence victims, those victims of serious assaults saying, “Is this a justice system or is it just a legal system?” To me, change—