To me, with all due respect, that makes no sense because those people charged with those serious offences, like Chief Killeen said, they know the system. They know they're going to get out. With these factors taken into account, even with the Gladue factors for sentencing, where does that outweigh the safety of the public? I've continuously said that, especially with these violent offenders who keep coming back to the community.
We're also getting violent offenders from other communities, non-indigenous people living here in the territory. We're dealing with them, whether it's a drug execution warrant and they're armed with illegal firearms, handguns that are smuggled in from the U.S..
There has to be a change because I foresee there's going to be another tragedy—I hate to say that—before something is done.
