Thank you. That's an excellent question.
We spend a lot of time in our organization speaking about wrongful convictions, over-convictions, systemic discrimination, and of course all the broad societal factors that lead people into pathways of incarceration where we believe the viable alternative is a community response to whatever has happened.
Speaking to this bill, in Bill C-40 we see a tremendous number of women and gender-diverse people. I mean, we're talking about a population with an average education level, at the point of sentencing, of grade 8. People are very unaware of the legal processes they're becoming swept up in. In combination with the conditions that people experience in pretrial incarceration, we see this resulting in individuals just pleading guilty, or, at the base, not understanding the processes they're going through. We see a lot of people who we believe are factually innocent, and then we see many more who we believe are over-convicted and overincarcerated.