There has been criticism over the years from the courts—you referred to some of it—the Office of the Correctional Investigator, the John Howard Society, the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies and others that indigenous people do not have as much access in our federal institutions as other inmates have to programming and services that are appropriate to them. By the legislation and by the budget commitments that we are making, we are trying to address that issue. You may recall that this is a mandate that was given to both the Minister of Justice and to me in our mandate letters from the Prime Minister.
We were also told to implement the findings of the coroner's inquest into the death of Ashley Smith. This legislation takes some important steps forward in doing that. Ashley Smith's case was one of the very tragic circumstances where an indigenous woman with significant mental health issues was failed by our system, and we're trying to address that.