Renée Dupuis, senatorial division of The Laurentides, Quebec.

[English]

I’d like to thank the three witnesses for being with us today.

Ms. Latimer, I’d like you to reconsider your comment about the definition of “disadvantaged or minority population.” You seemed to indicate that this definition is not inclusive.

Could you clarify what should be added or written differently?

[English]

Thank you. That answers my question.

Do you have a suggestion for different wording? Because it seems to say here, in the definition of section 8: “disadvantaged or minority population includes any population that is or has been the subject [...] of discrimination [...].”

Should we add an element?

[English]

That answers my question.

[English]

Thank you.

[English]

My question relates to what Ms. Campbell just said.

Ms. Campbell, when you talked about the fact that there hasn’t been a systemic change in 50 years, I’d like to link that with what Ms. Latimer told us earlier, that a review of the law should have begun in January 2023 and that we were being invited to undertake that work, here in committee.

If I understand correctly, we haven’t done, in the prison field, what we had to do in the labour field, i.e., move from a regime where work accidents were physical accidents, to the reality of today, where the problems are mostly mental health problems.

In the same way, have we refused to see that in prisons, it’s the same thing? Mental health problems are a major concern in the prison world. In your opinion, is a radical change needed in the way we look at these issues in the world of federal penitentiaries?

[English]