Mr. Chair, Monsieur Dubé, I think there are a lot of statistics out there. The whole matrix, whether we look at it within the context of the judicial system, the policing system, or the correctional system, I think it's all there.
When we take a look at other educational outcomes, take a look at children in care, or take an understanding of drug and alcohol treatment centres and those kinds of things, we see there's a tremendous amount of information out there for us to act upon. I think we always tend to take a narrow focus. You know, we get into our little sectoral views and say that this is the problem, something like recidivism rates of first nations men and women or Métis men and women coming out of prison. We get stuck on that, and then we analyze and rationalize why they have been brought back into the system.
I think it's time for action. As for compiling data to understand poverty, understand racism and colonialism, I think it's there. It think it's just to act on that now.
The fundamental basis for recognizing the issues is there. I think we need to take that and use that and analyze those stats to say where some of the targeted areas are that we need to focus on.