Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question is for Ms. Dover.
In Gladue, the Supreme Court of Canada acknowledged the serious issue of the overrepresentation of indigenous peoples in Canadian prisons and asked judges to take into account unique systemic or background factors at sentencing.
If certain mandatory minimum sentences were abolished that impose a one-size-fits-all approach and conditional sentences were used more, do you think that would give judges the discretionary power to follow the recommendations in Gladue?