Status of Women committee  Can I defer that question to Madame Picard?

Status of Women committee  Patricia Monture, who has now passed on, made the comment, “Give me my people back.” I think it is really important that we understand that indigenous people heal in indigenous communities.

Status of Women committee  Yes, I do: the ones that pertain to decarceration strategies. It would be around those. I definitely wouldn't say I'm an expert around the Corston report—it's more on what's being done in Canada—but it would be anything around decarceration.

Status of Women committee  Yes, for sure.

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry, could you just quickly repeat those numbers?

Status of Women committee  Okay. My understanding is that the Correctional Service has introduced new programming around mental health. They've also deferred some funds. I was listening to the Office of the Correctional Investigator. They said they had 700 beds for prisoner psychiatric patients and tha

Status of Women committee  To echo what Madame Picard was saying, right now, as far as I know, there's one section 81 for women—a healing lodge for women—and that's in Alberta. Then there's one healing lodge run by CSC, which is in Saskatchewan. Just to go back to the idea of results, it really is differe

Status of Women committee  Yes, it's a good question. “Penal” means “punitive”, and “colonialism” would be the history of European exploitation in other people's countries, like in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. It's a settler colonial region where individuals came, settled, and had to eliminate the

Status of Women committee  I was talking to a friend of mine back in B.C. She is a Carrier Sekani woman. Her sister is in prison for murder right now. I'll walk you through that story. Their history is that the father was abusive. They lived with a fairly abusive family. The mother drank quite a bit. The

Status of Women committee  In the CCRA, they do. I forget the section; I think it's section 33. They have to actually provide cultural sensitivity to indigenous people at the federal level.

Status of Women committee  In what way do you mean?

Status of Women committee  I think that's important, and I think bringing culture into prison is important. I think those are the kinds of things that at least alleviate some of these impacts. The reality, from my sense of it, is that there's a culture in prisons. If anyone has ever been in a prison they

Status of Women committee  If it's the only option, I would say yes, but I would definitely look more towards community options.

Status of Women committee  With indigenous people...?

Status of Women committee  This would be where all the great work that Madame Picard does comes in. They would come in and would actually host section 81 or section 84 agreements, through which they have some of the resources in place to facilitate, to see, to host indigenous women.