Mr. Speaker, I believe they can search them if they have the desire and the direction from the authorities to do so. I do not think that direction is given out very often because we have a group of people who are running the show and they are called Liberals. They have hired a commissioner who is very soft.
They wanted to know whether correctional officers should be uniformed, whether they should wear a military style uniform or a police uniform or golf shirts. The commissioner has said that as long he is commissioner they will wear golf shirts. He does not want them to look like authority and scare the poor little inmates to death. What kind of an attitude is that?
If the scanners my colleague is talking about are set off when someone comes in as a visitor, there ought to be some serious action taken immediately to determine what it is. It is true they may pick up a five dollar bill in my pocket. It might detect that someone had their hands on it at one time. They should find out what it is.
They have a zero tolerance for drugs. Have we ever hear anything funnier in our lives when drugs are more available in penitentiaries than they are on any street in our country? There is no real genuine effort to stop them. Their zero tolerance is nonsense. It does not exit. I wish they would quit saying that is their policy.