Public Safety committee  Within Bill C-15 there is an exemption for individuals to avoid the mandatory minimum sentences if they are accepted into a treatment program. That treatment element of the MMP legislation is twofold. It does make specific reference to drug treatment courts, but it also makes ref

Public Safety committee  As was mentioned, national evaluation is challenging in that we bring together the results from the different programs across the country. What the current statistics show is that we have a range of graduation rates, from 6% to 36%, in the various programs. There's an obvious nee

Public Safety committee  Recently we've completed the summative evaluation on the initial four years of the program, 2005 to 2009. The summative evaluation concluded that we still needed more time to evaluate whether or not this is an effective or cost-efficient approach.

Public Safety committee  We will be looking at both. There is an opportunity to determine whether or not it's cost-effective, but when we're dealing with issues around high-needs clients, besides cost-effectiveness or is the question of its being an efficient or effective program. There will be elements

Public Safety committee  Thank you. My name is Margaret Trottier, and I'm a Senior Policy Analyst with the Policy Implementation Directorate of Programs Branch within the Department of Justice. I am responsible for the drug treatment court funding program. In recognition of the link between drug use a