Obviously, more understanding and more awareness is always important. In general, my position would be that having the aboriginal communities have more control over the care and custody of their own people would foster a respect from policing, and from the criminal justice system in general, that is surely lacking based on the numbers that we're seeing. Too many women are being placed in prisons instead of having alternative possibilities considered. Once in prison, too many women are being kept in secure confinement, and not being released on parole. It's a societal problem, and I think it really does begin with the communities themselves having that care and custody back and having the level of autonomy that all parties involved in the criminal justice system would have to respect.
On February 8th, 2018. See this statement in context.