About indigenous women in particular, I was just out at the Fraser Valley Institution this week with my students here at the law school. We met with women in the minimum-security unit who should be ready for release, and they are entirely idle with their time. They talked to me about how they have absolutely virtually nothing. In terms of programming, they have way less on the minimum-security side than people on the maximum-security side or the medium-security side. That is clearly an example of how all the resources are going into certain interventions. That's what I worry about with regard to the SIUs: all the resources going into those kinds of interventions and not into getting people out into the community.
On November 22nd, 2018. See this statement in context.