My concern would be that while clearly a healing lodge is better than a person being in prison, often there is still a great deal of CSC control over these places, as well as rules and restrictions, and they become very defined by the Correctional Service. Based on the number of years that we have had these provisions in place, I would say they don't go far enough. There aren't enough of those. They've had time to make those sections of the legislation available, and they haven't done a good job with that. Just in terms of where I see it going, again, I think having Correctional Service less involved and the aboriginal community more involved is something that must be explored, because it's not working the way things currently are, and there's been time to make it work.
On February 8th, 2018. See this statement in context.