I'm supportive of the amendment and the proposed study. I think it's a very important study, particularly with our current study on gender-based violence, and particularly in Manitoba and the Prairies, where 85% of incarcerated persons—women—were the fastest growing population of incarcerated persons, which is much related to what we spoke about today regarding intergenerational trauma and colonization.
We talk about reconciliation, and we need to reconcile with the consequences it has had, particularly on indigenous and Black communities in this country; as the late Percy Tuesday, a residential school survivor, said, “Prisons are the new residential schools.”
I'm very supportive of the proposed study and how it would help to reunify and heal families.
Thank you.