Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I hope to have that within this fiscal year, to have the proposal in place. The management protocol, I think, was a response to some very challenging and difficult cases. It's been in place, and I think it's been pointed out that there are some difficulties with that. I recognize those difficulties, and I've asked our staff to look at how we address those in a way that is actually more progressive and looks at moving women back into a general population mode so that they can access interventions and opportunities like the rest of the women.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Very much so. As part of our overall human resource renewal strategy, we have a subsection that we're entitling our “aboriginal human resource renewal strategy”. Within that strategy we're addressing all the issues related to recruitment of aboriginal people, addressing the learning and development needs of our staff, the retention issue, so that we get these people to stay working with the correctional service.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, I'm absolutely confident that with the new approach we're taking, which includes enhancements to our strategic plan, the introduction of our accountability framework, the internal governance structures, and the manner in which I engage our entire executive committee around the issue of aboriginal offenders within the federal system, that will move the yardsticks.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The last time we met was in early summer. We've had three meetings in the last year.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's right.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. Our next meeting is in January, and then I think the next one after that may be in March. As an example, we held our last meeting in Iqaluit, and it was an opportunity for us to engage representatives from the Nunavut government and the community to talk about northern corrections issues.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. It depends specifically on what figures you're looking for.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For the province of Alberta?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For the federal system?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't have the figures with me. I think the ones that the correctional investigator shared with you earlier during his testimony were the figures we're familiar with. Nothing he cited seemed to be out of proportion.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we can provide you with the figures. Those figures sound to be in the right zone.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. We looked at, in comparison, two sets of figures that we can give you in terms of the admissions. We know that aboriginal offenders who come into our system, compared to non-aboriginal offenders at the time of admission, are coming in with a sentence that's about a month shorter than non-aboriginal offenders.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Oui, pas de problème. We can provide that to the committee.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Certainly.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are a couple of things. Through our accountability framework document that we produced this year, we have much more stringent measures to measure our progress. We know that in the first few years it's going to be incremental, and we hope that'll ramp up in the future years.