Mr. Speaker, the good news is that we had a 4% drop in the youth population in custody from 2001 to 2002, but in particular the overall youth incarceration rate was 12.5% per 10,000 youth population, which represents a decrease of 5% from the previous year but, most important, a significant 33% decline since 2003 and 2004.
I would like to add that we do have to address the disproportionate incidence of aboriginal youth in the criminal justice system.