The government has also established—with the endorsement of the Supreme Court —the famous Gladue reports that allow a social study to be carried out when a member of an indigenous community is charged[Technical difficulty—Editor].
People who work in the field tell me that there are not enough resources in the indigenous communities to prepare the Gladue reports. The judges ask for them, but the defence lawyers claim that they don't have the resources needed to prepare a Gladue report.
Would that not have been a better way of attacking the overrepresentation of indigenous people in our prisons, for example?