One of the funding programs the department has is the aboriginal court work program. It's made up of about 180 court workers who are spread out across the country. Some of them are co-funded through the provinces.
These individuals are the liaisons between the individual and the court system, whether the individual be the offender or a victim, to help them understand what the court process is about. For many of the offenders the court system is a foreign culture.
For example on the administration of justice offence issue—this is purely anecdotal—I was told by one director trying to reduce the number of breaches of administration of justice offences because of failure to appear, that the problem was that the closest court house was miles away from the reservation and from the band, and people weren't appearing in court because they couldn't get to town.
The court workers got a school bus, went around on court day and picked up everybody, took them to court, made sure they made their appearance, and then drove them back to their homes. This was an innovative way of ensuring people were not being charged for failure to appear when it wasn't anything intentional, but simply that they had no means to get to town.