Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to begin this round in reference to specific calls to action in the reports. In one particular report related to the criminal justice system, they are also found in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. I think that's another report that is in many ways similar in the sense that it provides very clear evidence as to the issues. It provides very clear recommendations as to what's possible and what's needed from our government in order to remedy or accommodate some of the extreme overrepresentation of indigenous and Black community members in our correctional system.
I really do appreciate your office's attention to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It's an important document in our nation's understanding of our systems, but more so, it's an opportunity to rebuild trust and to rebuild our relations with my relatives and indigenous nations across the country. Of course, the risk is that our failure as a country to actually to do these things will continue to erode that process.
In response to Mrs. Shanahan's question, you mentioned that you were working, in some sense, on ways to enforce some of this. You mentioned that at times you don't shy away in your informal recommendations or informal advice to departments and folks who are truly responsible for this ongoing crisis. You mentioned that you've contacted several of them, but my question is specific to CSC and the commissioner's own acceptance of the fact that this is continuing to happen.
Have you talked to the commissioner or CSC at all to motivate or to demonstrate that these are simply unacceptable rates of continued violence against indigenous people, that it's unacceptable that they haven't applied a GBA+ analysis and that it's unacceptable that they continue to disproportionately hire non-indigenous, non-Black correctional officers in these facilities?