It's the impact it would have on under-represented groups. I can speak as an Anishinabe person about what I've witnessed and what I've experienced as well. Due to the history and trauma that we've experienced, there's been a lot of family and community breakdown. Systems that have traditionally been in place no longer exist. There's a lot of intergenerational parenting that is happening. For example, my mother is raising her nine-year-old great-granddaughter, because my nieces are struggling with their own mental health and addiction issues.
When there is that intergenerational parenting happening and biological parents might be absent, there is right there the optics of what is considered healthy parenting or healthy family systems. When you think about child welfare and what is an imminent risk, those have been created by western systems. Even though we are doing our best to maintain and preserve family, it isn't happening. But we're doing the best we can.
Indigenous people are only 4% of the population in Canada. However, indigenous people make up 30% to 50% of our jails. It's incredibly disproportionate. We could say the same for Black people as well. It's a very disproportionate ratio. It would definitely have negative consequences.