We recommend that elders be part of that process and that Corrections not define who those elders are, that communities themselves determine that and that these elders be reflective of these communities.
Also, I think it's important to provide culturally sensitive and trauma-informed care when people are disclosing what people would call their systemic or background factors, or their Gladue factors, and make sure that one-on-one counselling is available in their language, to be determined by that counsellor, and also that people can choose to have an elder as their counsellor.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has said that spiritual and cultural care is often a very important factor in addressing mental health, physical health and emotional effect, and that needs to be factored in. That's why in proposed sections 85 and 86 I've inserted in my brief that elders be given the autonomy to make certain decisions about mental and emotional health, and that they be health care providers in a sense.