I would say that out of our survivor support fund about 17% of our applicants are indigenous people. We don't ask that specific question on what their experience has been like with police. I can only answer that question anecdotally from my own conversations with different survivors who are indigenous or BIPOC. I can respond to the question that way and say that, yes, there certainly have been experiences that they may have had with the police that have not been good. Conversely, there are some who have had good experiences with the police.
I really want to speak to that and about how important it is. If we're talking about changes to the legislation, I would strongly encourage you to include a training component for all aspects, all parts of our justice system.
As I mentioned, we have trained 10,000 people across Canada, most recently at a summit, the Canadian Sexual Exploitation Summit, where we had a whole day for training police, Crown attorneys, judges and whoever wanted to be part of that training. Part of that training was to hear from indigenous voices and to share their experiences with the police on the things to do, the things not to do and some of the challenges they have faced.
Absolutely, I don't deny that there have been challenges at times for indigenous people with their experiences with the police, but I think that better training is what is needed, and I do see that as possible. We were very encouraged to have about 75 police, Crown attorneys and judges take part in the training that day last May. They were all very supportive of PCEPA, the law you are currently reviewing, and just wanted to learn how better to implement it and how to enforce it.