I'll comment on the policing issue first.
I think the multicultural training would be very helpful for the police. There has been training for them. Some of them may have taken this training. Other than that, I'm not aware of any other training.
With the court system, we need funding for it. I believe that anybody who is going through the process and has gone to jail, who has been incarcerated in the jail system...they don't get any help when they go to a provincial system. They don't get any services or programs. They're not delivered there--unless they go to the federal system.
Having said that, we had a program we looked at to see if we could do it within our organization. It was supposed to be treatment-based. We had our probation officers, victims services, court interpreters, and prison liaison, yet the provincial government didn't.... That was what we needed. We needed a coordinator for it. We needed a treatment-based program for the people who were going through the court system or going to jail, but we couldn't get the funding for it, so we only have our employees in place. They have very little to do, but they do deliver the programs to the people in our community and that has had a very positive effect on them. The people who were on probation, say, went to the people in their own language, and that really helped.
But we still don't have anything in place with the treatment services, like addiction treatment. That's one of the things that we were trying to get going, but due to the funding we couldn't get that on the go.
I believe that it doesn't help the individuals who go to jail to not have the services there or to not have programs offered to them. They just sit there, do their time and get out, and do the same thing very soon after that. I think treatment would be more effective than going to jail.