Thank you for that. I didn't ask a question about the relationship between incarceration and deterrence; I simply asked you to recognize that violent crime has been decreasing for the last 14 years. You can take a different view, but that is mine.
I also want to append to that that Toronto has been the source of some concern here in terms of gang violence and the number of homicides. There was a horrible spike in homicides with firearms here over the last year and a half to two years, but fortunately, the year 2006 has seen much better data coming in. From the data provided by the Toronto Police Service, the number of firearm homicides this year with about one month left to go has dropped 44%. It's fallen through the floor. The number of firearm woundings has dropped 19%, and the number of shootings is down 20%. So these are good statistical data. It doesn't mean we don't have a problem with guns. We still do. But the spike that occurred has gone back to where we were. I still accept we have a problem with guns in the community, but we don't have the huge increases and crisis that we had before.
Professor Chartrand, I want to ask you.... The Supreme Court, within the last two or three years, has commented that we have a crisis in our corrections system. That was a warning and a red flag for all of us in Parliament, and should be for society. It had to do with the very high proportion of aboriginals incarcerated in our system. I want to ask you, because you do have a perspective on this from your position in Manitoba, do you believe the provisions in this bill will help or hurt or be neutral with respect to our ability to address the crisis described by the Supreme Court in terms of the proportion of aboriginals in our corrections system?