I want to bring us back to the issue that I narrowed in on in my remarks, which is the fact that we have a crisis of mass incarceration of indigenous women and gender-diverse people in this country. In the federal prison system, 50% of the people we see are indigenous. As you all know, they make up only about 4% of our population. In the provincial jails, that number is even higher.
Why? It's because we are criminalizing indigenous people in this country at higher rates than we are anybody else, and the number of women who are being incarcerated is growing faster than the number of men. We need to pay attention to that. If we continue to address social issues with criminal law, we will continue to have this mass incarceration issue.
