Public Safety committee  We know a lot about the head start program. We're pushing government to get more engagement in the head start program.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  But there's a horrible environment. I don't mean to argue—

Public Safety committee  People get jaded.

Public Safety committee  The only thing I want to say is, let's get that message out, because I think you are right. As I was saying, it's not your first choice to go to Stony Mountain or Kent Institution, but you might want to go to Pê Sâkâstêw or Okimaw Ohci.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, honourable member. It's extremely important that we begin to look at the.... I'll use our relationship with the Métis Nation. We have our ASETS program, which is now referred to as ISETS. It's about training and about.... We have and will continue to utiliz

Public Safety committee  The absolute clear answer is yes. I think the regional chief has expressed the other aspects of correctional programming. If stats tell me anything.... It's a very well-known fact that when you're in prison and you talk with an aboriginal inmate, if you say, “How long are you in

Public Safety committee  That's a great question and observation. When we talk about the corrections issue, as you may or may not know, at one time there wasn't an assistant commissioner for women. Certainly after the Arbour report and growing further with the service developing Okimaw Ohci, which is an

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, Monsieur Dubé, I think there are a lot of statistics out there. The whole matrix, whether we look at it within the context of the judicial system, the policing system, or the correctional system, I think it's all there. When we take a look at other educational outcom

Public Safety committee  I think the regional chief has hit all the marks. It's really about where Canada is in its society. If you had asked me 15 years ago whether we were truly going to be in a reconciliation environment with indigenous people in this country, I would have said that you were crazy. I

Public Safety committee  Okay. I think it's really about that. Let's get ourselves into a true reconciliation framework and let's look closely at the real issues that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission talked about. Let's talk about the relationship that we have and about empowering indigenous grou

Public Safety committee  You go ahead.

Public Safety committee  Really quickly, that's been a request for the last 30 years. It's been out there, and correctional investigators and others have referred to it. National leaders have reinforced it. I think it's a very important position and focus to be created, but more than just creating the co

Public Safety committee  I'll start. If you take a look at the family dynamics of coming from a community where you're charged, obviously you go back to the city by which you were charged and sentenced. In many regards, for many years, and I think still, the system tries to connect men and women who ar

Public Safety committee  That's right.