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Public Accounts committee What we're going to be doing, in specific institutions across the country, is have centralized intake units that will specialize in doing the assessments, the planning, and initiating the interventions for aboriginal offenders. This way, rather than spread our resources across 43 institutions, we're going to target institutions in each of our five regions and a couple of extra ones in the Prairie region that will be specialized.
February 15th, 2017Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Accounts committee The senior deputy commissioner, Anne Kelly, is responsible for aboriginal initiatives in—
February 15th, 2017Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Accounts committee —CSC, yes.
February 15th, 2017Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Accounts committee The short answer is yes. Were there things that the Auditor General pointed out that we've added? The answer is yes.
February 15th, 2017Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Accounts committee Please don't interpret anything I'm saying to mean that we are.
February 15th, 2017Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Accounts committee If you go back to what you described as my “bring-and-brag” report, we recognize very clearly that there are gaps. We're working to encourage more elders to come into the system. We're working to ensure that our aboriginal liaison officers...in our management action plan you'll see our plan to train the ALOs and the ACDOs to do that.
February 15th, 2017Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Accounts committee Again, the short answer is yes. Our whole strategy going forward with aboriginal offenders is to have them start their programs at the time of intake, as soon as they come in the door.
February 15th, 2017Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Accounts committee I think it was primarily because the focus was on trying to address a long list of program needs for offenders while they were incarcerated, as opposed to identifying the main program, the key program, and activating that as soon as possible. There is no question that there was a gap.
February 15th, 2017Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Accounts committee Thanks for the question, and thanks for your observation. There is no question that we did examine that. Did we provide enough? The answer is no, we did not. There are several reasons we could probably go into. One, of course, is the increased number of individuals coming into the system and the capacity to keep up with that.
February 15th, 2017Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Accounts committee What I can talk about there is our engagement with elders. We have about 140 elders who are working in the institutions, working with indigenous offenders across the country. Some offenders access the services; others do not. One of the challenges we have is keeping elders, partly because they are elderly.
February 15th, 2017Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Accounts committee No problem.
February 15th, 2017Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Accounts committee Yes, we were planning on implementing it, but the Auditor General pointed out to us that we probably should have implemented it earlier or needed to move on it more quickly, and we've accepted that recommendation.
February 15th, 2017Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Accounts committee Very much so.
February 15th, 2017Committee meeting
Don Head
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 rehabilitation plan.
February 15th, 2017Committee meeting
Don Head
Public Accounts committee It's primarily in the Prairies, and I think it's about 18% of the aboriginal offenders, compared to 8% of the general population. It's just a little over double, which is problematic for us.
February 15th, 2017Committee meeting
Don Head