The Correctional Service of Canada of course doesn't have any control over who the courts send to them. The decisions about who to police, who to charge, who to prosecute, and who to sentence are all made outside of corrections, and certainly they're all outside of the mandate of a correctional investigator.
There has been significant commentary on all of that, most recently by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Study after study has come to pretty much the same conclusion, which is that there is disadvantage rooted in the social and cultural history of Canada's indigenous peoples. My focus is on that disadvantage when it follows them inside a penitentiary and what the Correctional Service of Canada can do to mitigate that disadvantage and prepare people for safe and timely release.
There is lots of room for improvement there. Certainly the ten recommendations we made in 2013, in the “Spirit Matters” report, still stand. That was only the second special report my office ever tabled in Parliament. Those recommendations were not fully responded to. We made very specific recommendations around the use of elders, about better engagement with the aboriginal community, about better cultural training, and a host of things the Correctional Service of Canada can do, and I think needs to do, in a more focused and effective way.