If we're looking at it as a statistical game, then you're going to see that there's been an increase since I made my submissions in 2014, particularly of indigenous women and female youth within our penal and criminal justice systems.
The number of those who are tied to sex-related offences has decreased post Bedford, because there aren't as many charges, but then there are connections within the community. Some of the provisions in PCEPA that rely on the livelihood or the potential of benefiting from livelihood are adversely impacting larger communities and broad communities.
We have to contextualize this criminalization and couch this really quickly in the fact that indigenous people are overpoliced or underpoliced, depending on the circumstance, simply for being indigenous. They have more scrutiny. They're seen more often, and the police are following up with or dealing with those communities more regularly.
I don't think you're going to extract the statistic you're hoping for directly, but if we're looking at just a numbers game, we're only continuing to overincarcerate and mass-incarcerate indigenous people, including sex workers and people who have been sexually exploited through no fault of their own.