Thank you. Again, that's a great question.
Indigenous youth in particular often find themselves caught between the child welfare and the criminal justice systems, and oftentimes getting caught in the first means they will be lifers in the second. We have a youth justice fund in the Department of Justice to respond to youth justice issues and to enable the solution, which is more community participation in the youth justice system that's particularly aimed at reducing incarceration rates amongst indigenous Canadians.
For example, with an annual budget of $4.5 million, I'm supporting Ryerson University’s national indigenous courtworkers indigenous youth-centred justice project, or IYJP, which will work across the north, across a number of jurisdictions, to pilot innovative, community-based justice models. They will bring in multiple stakeholders and multiple sectors to work on collective and sustainable responses to address youth justice, precisely as you say, to keep people from graduating from the youth justice system into the criminal justice system.
The solutions that work are the ones that are based on the ground up, and that's precisely what the IYJP does.