Falling short of calling COVID a blessing, I think it's been catastrophic for a lot of the indigenous communities. The results have been horrific for our populations. Mortality has increased and access to health services has been extraordinarily frustrating and slow. In terms of the ability of our elders to recover from this, the long-term effects have yet to be seen.
When it comes to your specific question on delays in the justice system, this point wasn't actually a point that was heavily emphasized in the report that we conducted with the University of Saskatchewan. Again, going back to my presentation, the participants in the survey spoke largely about jurisdictional issues. The questions and their focus weren't heavily on the delays, although they noted that delays to the justice system exacerbated some existing procedural issues that had been identified by previous reports and commissions.
The real issue is that this needs to be seen as an opportunity to fundamentally and systemically restructure the justice system in the ways we identified earlier today and in our correspondence to Justice Minister David Lametti's office on numerous occasions.