I would like to come back to skills development and the penitentiaries. In Quebec at least, there are no programs. There is no attempt being made to develop inmates' skills in prison. There is no money. So, inmates serve their term and there is nothing else. It is kind of a parking lot for human beings.
At the federal level, if you are Aboriginal, they already know perfectly well where you are from—which community. They don't offer you any programs because they consider the risk to be too high. Therefore, prisons or penitentiaries, which should allow for certain skills to be developed, are discriminatory towards Aboriginals, because they have too many needs and represent too high a risk of recidivism. In Canada, there are obviously correctional programs offered to drug addicts. They deal with the use of substances. There are also anger management and sexual abuse management programs which are aimed at controlling sexual deviance among Aboriginals.
However, even if we work at developing skills at the individual level, these people return to their communities afterwards, where the unemployment rate is 90% and the rate of sexual violence and abuse of all kinds is as high as 80%. So, how can you expect time spent in a penitentiary to have any preponderant effect, in a living environment such as that?