If I understand the question correctly, I think certainly that the aboriginal people being left out of decision-making that has directly affected them, the place where they live, how they're going to earn their income, what laws they answer to.... Theirs has been a history of violence, I think is a good way to describe it, and dislocation and systemic racism that continue. There's a tendency to think that it is improving, but the numbers that we are looking at tell us that it is not improving. Again, particularly my experience is with the Correctional Service Canada once the person is in prison. The way things currently are, once in prison, we continue to struggle and they continue to struggle. Despite the Corrections and Conditional Release Act being in place for several decades now and having those sections, like section 81-type transfers, where the care and custody can be given back to the aboriginal community, and section 84, where a parole release can be facilitated for an aboriginal person, which is in mandatory language, those aren't being acted on.
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