The Department of Justice will be doing some strategic planning when session is over. During the course of that, one of the priorities that we have that has been a personal priority for me is to achieve some movement in terms of the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in prisons. There are ways of doing that by increasing our community engagement; by increasing community justice programming; by looking to diversion programs; by truly avoiding people going into the jail system in the first place; by, for example, reducing the amount of people who are in remand. There are a number of levers that we can pull, and those are all going to be levers that we are looking to to see what changes we can make both quickly but also systemically over time.
Caroline Wawzonek on Question 191-19(2): Gladue Reports
In the Legislative Assembly on March 12th, 2020. See this statement in context.
Question 191-19(2): Gladue Reports
Oral Questions
March 12th, 2020
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