Public Accounts committee  One of the challenges we have, particularly in the Prairies region of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, is the prevalence of aboriginal gangs. One of the challenges we have is the placement of certain individuals into certain penitentiaries to be able to follow their rehabilit

Public Accounts committee  It's not that the offenders were not getting any programming or intervention opportunities. I defer to the OAG to clarify their statement. The assessment tools that were being used indicated that aboriginal offenders were being referred to more programs than what was possibly n

Public Accounts committee  Yes, the criminal risk index is an assessment tool that we found through our research that does not appear to have any potential bias built into it. Therefore, it's not going to suggest that an individual be classified at a higher level or held in a higher security level. There

Public Accounts committee  It's driven to a large extent by the desire of the offender. We have indigenous offenders who choose not to go down the path that would lead to healing lodges. Some will take the mainstream programs, and they have access to all the mainstream programs. For those who choose to go

Public Accounts committee  We offer Pathways units in various security levels. It's not just minimum security offenders who can access the Pathways initiatives. We also have elders in all levels of security—maximum, medium, and minimum. Access to the healing lodges is for individuals who have been classif

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I most definitely can.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, thank you. That's a very good question. All offenders have access to all the mainstream programs at any given time. Indigenous offenders have the ability to go down a path that is more specific to their cultural needs. These are opportunities that would have them engaging

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for the invitation to appear before you today to discuss the Auditor General's performance audit, “Preparing Indigenous Offenders for Release”, and the accompanying recommendations. The report examined whether the Co

Public Safety committee  Yes, we've been using it since the fall. We're rolling it out across the country. It will become a national training standard for every employee.

Public Safety committee  Similar to the RCMP, basically all that we did was to adopt the framework presented to us. There were modifications made to some of the scenarios and videos to make them more corrections specific. The version we were working with was the one that had been developed for the Calgar

Public Safety committee  I have a series of things you may want to consider. Part of it is looking at how we make available standardized awareness training for people to eliminate the stigma and to allow people to come forward and freely engage the supervisors. We also want to look at how we prepare ma

Public Safety committee  We have not looked at it in any great detail. Part of the challenge is the fact that these situations occur off the work site, and getting access to information is challenging at times. We have done a couple of studies over the last 20 years—nothing in great detail, but we've id

Public Safety committee  I agree. The more that we can do things in collaboration, the better use of resources we'll get. The dollars for addressing this kind of issue are thin. If we have research going on all across the country and it's not being matched up, we're not going to have the right answer. We

Public Safety committee  I can't say definitively. In a couple of cases that I do know, there were issues that had been going on throughout their last couple of years at work, so to draw a parallel, I would say yes. But to definitively say in every case, I can't do that. I can't make that statement.

Public Safety committee  We have a series of issues that are listed in our commissioner's directive. We can make a copy available, but it includes everything from violent assaults, inmates assaulting each other, assault on staff members, responding to individuals who have attempted suicide, responding to