Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Commissioner, as you know, around half of those incarcerated in federal women's prisons are indigenous. The minister and I have spoken quite a bit about the indigenous community corrections initiative.
One of the organizations that applied for that funding is in my community. It's Healing of the Seven Generations. They applied back in July 2023 to provide a program for healing and support for incarcerated indigenous folks who are reintegrating into communities. They didn't hear back about their application until October of this year. The project was meant to start on January 1 of this year.
My question to you is this: What can be done through CSC and potentially through Public Safety Canada to provide more timely responses to organizations like Healing of the Seven Generations, which I think we can both agree are doing really important work?