Thank you.
I'm going to lean on two truths that we hold to be true: One is that disproportionately, indigenous women are victims of domestic and intimate partner violence, and that indigenous women are overincarcerated in our federal prisons.
NWAC's position on Bill S-205, to respond to your question about whether there are unintended harms, is to ask that this committee, in its study, be alive to some of those unintended consequence vis-à-vis overincarceration of indigenous women.