I know my time is limited. The programs are there. The structure is there. The recidivism rate is quite low, actually, coming out of a federal institution. As far as the information that I have is concerned—Pam, you've mentioned this as well—the mental health issues, the educational issues, all of those things start before you enter the criminal justice system. Those are predominantly community and provincial based, so the program is going to have to be funded more on the front end in terms of making sure, especially if there are measures in place for indigenous people and all that, that you have resilient children as they're growing up and you're catching those issues fairly early.
There are a lot of addiction issues and drug issues, for example, the crack cocaine that burned holes in people's brains so now there are people who don't have full brain capacity and have mental health issues. It just snowballs. I think an overall strategy has to be undertaken. I worked with more than 100 community advocates and three levels of government trying to do a strategy around what that would look like starting from the community, so you're not coming in contact with the judiciary or with the justice system.
Your idea in terms of the elder commission or the discharging to an aboriginal community is probably one which I think would really work. I don't know who would be in charge of that other than the parole board, if these folks go through the parole board. I don't know. What would you suggest?