Well, it's a very complex question that is going to require an effort across many departments, including my own.
Mr. Kellway asked questions about the justice programming for aboriginals, and that is one way we're attempting to address their disproportionate representation in our criminal justice system, which you've alluded to. These are issues of very complex questions on how we improve their access to education, how we improve housing, and on-reserve access to facilities and to health.
It is really, as we all know, one of the greatest challenges this country faces. Criminality is but one part of the enormous challenge that aboriginal communities face across Canada. Their isolation, their access to things such as the Internet, their access to education, all those things that sometimes Canadians living in more urban centres take for granted.
With respect to their disproportionate numbers in our prison system, it is going to take a concerted effort to continue this programming, coupled with enormous effort in combination with many other departments of government, and perhaps more importantly, in very close consultation with aboriginal leadership.
I met with Grand Chief Shawn Atleo just a few weeks ago. We had a very good discussion. He is a leader in every sense of the word. He brought forward some very good suggestions, some specific to the issues of the aboriginal justice programs that we're going to work with him on.