In fact, I concur with Mr. Stewart. In Canada, we know that 19% of inmates are aboriginals persons. This is a worrisome situation because the aboriginal community does not even account for 19% of the population.
This means that they have a much higher imprisonment rate, and we can be sure that a bill like C-10 will make things worse. Moreover, it will have a tremendous influence on the repression of street gangs in large urban centres like Montreal. We will have to build many more penitentiaries all over Canada if we want to jail all these people. It would be so simple—too simple, perhaps—if we stopped crime at its source through preventive measures. We should invest more in such measures. Often, this is under provincial jurisdiction and there are disputes among regions.