It does so in several ways.
Also, beyond the legislation, there are the financial commitments made in the last two budgets that provide more resources for dealing with indigenous-based programming within federal institutions. We are, by this legislation, essentially enshrining in law the Gladue principle.
For the last 15 or 20 years, the correctional service has applied the Gladue principle in the way it has tried to function, but now it will actually be enshrined in law that indigenous histories, backgrounds and characteristics need to be taken into account in the custodial transfer and treatment decisions made by the Correctional Service of Canada.