The practice of taking a woman with acute mental illness and putting her into an all-male institution, completed isolated, all alone in a unit, is shameful and a violation of human rights. I think there is no room for this in Canada. It's exactly what we're saying: you can sign an MOU with a provincial mental health facility in the case of an emergency, and then make the arrangements to transfer the person into federal custody in a much more.... It even goes further. When they responded to my annual report, not only did they say this was going to continue, but also that they were going to expand it to four other regions. For me, it's absolutely mind-boggling. It's an affront to every international human rights obligation that Canada has upheld, to be quite candid with you.
On February 6th, 2018. See this statement in context.