Okay. The government doesn't think Canadians need to know how much this costs. They seem to think that Canadian taxpayers' dollars.... We can't know how much it's going to cost, but I'm going to do some math.
If we have 1,000 people a year who have to stay in prison for one-third of their sentences instead of one-sixth of their sentences and the cost differential is at least $100,000, right off the bat you have 1,000 times $100,000 for every person who would have to stay in prison, as opposed to being in a community. Is my math wrong?
We have a problem with overcrowding. There was a memo released a week and a half ago by Correctional Service. It estimated that just two bills of this government will result in 4,000 more offenders coming into our prisons in the next two or three years, and we will have to hire an extra 3,300 new prison staff. On top of that, this bill means that 1,000 people a year would have to stay in those prisons, so that would be 5,000 more people in our prisons in the next two to three years. That's out of a total of 13,000 prisoners. So we're going to add about 40% more prisoners.
Do we have room in the prisons to put all these people in cells in the next two years?