Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the two people here today.
As I'm sure you're aware, the minister has been very clear that he wants to see some change for the better, or great change for the better, with respect to mental health in the prison system. I'm wondering, so that we better understand what we should be doing, if we should not look at the path that got us here. It seems to me that a great deal of what's going on now is a change in the treatment of people with mental health issues; it has sort of gone away at one level, but it's ended up now that we're dealing with it in the federal correctional system, which may not be the appropriate place for it to be dealt with. This becomes the catchment for something the federal Correctional Service was never designed for, never built for, and now we are trying to do a huge catch-up in a relatively short period of time when we look at it.
Shouldn't we be looking at some system to better deal with the mentally ill, so that they're not in the criminal justice system to start with, or if they are they get diverted to something other than corrections? Is there somewhere we should look at that? Is there somewhere, even in a different jurisdiction, that's dealing better with it?