What I'd actually like to talk about today is bail reform.
We know that according to police and court statistics, over half of the people currently in provincial and territorial detention facilities have not yet had a trial or been found guilty of an offence. As members pointed out during House debate, marginalized and vulnerable groups, including indigenous people, are overrepresented in this group of people being detained before trial. There's also a self-sustaining and self-perpetuating cycle of interaction with our criminal justice system. Court time and resources are disproportionately allocated to address breaches of police conditions or court conditions for bail. Many of these conditions are unrelated to an offence and do not actually serve to maintain public safety. Instead they place unnecessary burdens on vulnerable individuals, including indigenous Canadians, creating a pipeline to the prison system and making it difficult to break out of this cycle.
You mentioned these aspects in your remarks, but I hope you can comment further on what action is being taken to break this cycle and to ensure that the bail process is fair and equitable for marginalized groups, and particularly for indigenous peoples in Canada.