Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. I think originally when the projections were done, the data we had at our disposal was about three to four years old. It was projecting growth in remand offenders. The following year we noticed that the growth wasn't actually materializing, so our res

Public Safety committee  Certainly with our ethnocultural offenders, first of all, we do offer programs of cross-cultural training to our staff. In terms of the offenders in our institutions, we have what we call national ethnocultural advisory committees, as well as regional ethnocultural advisory commi

Public Safety committee  On aboriginal programming specifically, we offer a number of programs and interventions. One that we're quite proud of is the Pathways initiative, and maybe that's what you were referring to. Our Pathways initiatives have actually increased from 7 to 25. This is a traditional env

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. We have obtained some investments enabling us to build new units, which will give us an additional 2,752 cells—

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  I don't have that information here today. I would have to send you that information.

Public Safety committee  Okay.

Public Safety committee  Again, in terms of our population management approach, it's a multifaceted approach. The first thing we do is ensure that all available cells are used. We have national population management strategy committees at both the national and the regional levels. This is something that

Public Safety committee  No, actually with the addition of the new cells, with most of them online by the end of March 2014, we expect to return to a level of double bunking of around 8%.

Public Safety committee  This is once all of the units have come online.

Public Safety committee  We had received funds, but there was a surplus. We had to transfer it to Fisheries and Oceans Canada and to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada.

Public Safety committee  I will have to provide an answer to that later.

Public Safety committee  I don't have the percentages here with me, but I can say that investments have been made in rehabilitation programs. We believe in this kind of program. Our programs are recognized around the world. When we assess inmates at intake, we direct them toward programs. We still depen

Public Safety committee  Yes, there has been an increase, and that's why, certainly, it's a priority for us to manage aboriginal offenders and to reduce the overrepresentation. In Correctional Service of Canada we do quite a bit, actually. We do have some healing lodges where aboriginal offenders can b

Public Safety committee  In terms of double bunking, obviously we still strive for single occupancy. That's not always possible. Again, I'll go back to what I said before, that we have an approach to this. The first thing we do... Again, it's through national population management committees and regional