I can start by saying that there haven't been specific consultations on Bill C-5, but there were consultations done at the criminal justice system round tables in 2016, and the mandatory minimum penalties that are being targeted in this bill are the ones that are particularly associated with negative disproportionate impacts on indigenous people, Black Canadians and members of marginalized communities.
As the minister noted earlier, indigenous persons are overrepresented with respect to certain firearm-related offences, and the same goes for Black Canadians, who are overrepresented with respect to import/export offences. I can also say that there's one in five indigenous women who are serving a sentence for a serious drug offence or conspiracy to commit a serious drug offence, and that by repealing the mandatory minimum penalties in those cases, the government is restoring judicial discretion to impose fit sentences in all cases.