Public Safety committee  In terms of the funding being allocated, again it's to expand our mental health supports to offenders. Obviously, for some offenders who have some challenging behaviours and who may otherwise sometimes end up in administrative segregation, having intermediate mental health care p

Public Safety committee  Oftentimes we see in offenders with challenging behaviours an underlying mental health need, such as FASD or a personality disorder. The funding that we'll receive will assist with those offenders.

Public Safety committee  This is something we've been tackling for some time. I was a parole officer. The first thing you ask about, as soon as an offender arrives, is their ID and what's required. We actually help them. We provide them with the forms and help them complete them so that they have the pro

Public Safety committee  The monies we're going to receive will be to expand our mental health supports to offenders. This is going to provide a better continuum of care. For us, receiving funding means, for maximum-security offenders, that we can provide intermediate mental health care to both men and

Public Safety committee  In terms of the monies we'll receive, right now we have a mental health strategy that's along a continuum of care. Screening is done at intake when an offender arrives. We have primary health care, intermediate mental health care, and also psychiatric hospital care. In 2015 we ha

Public Safety committee  In terms of the healing lodges, as I mentioned at last week's committee, we've now created a stronger agreement framework in consultation with current section 81 agreement holders. We've also revised a formula for funding that recognizes the unique requirements of different heali

Public Safety committee  Actually, on the revised funding formula, again, it's negotiations between CSC and the indigenous agreement holders. And yes, it will assist.

Public Safety committee  We'll be able to do that through budget 2017, and that's why we'll have these pre-employment centres at two of our healing lodges, and then at CORCAN community industries, they can build the infrastructure for modular homes. Also, in some way we're helping with a government prior

Public Safety committee  No, it hasn't. Actually, I'm really glad you asked that question. I'm the senior deputy commissioner. I'm the most senior executive reporting to the commissioner. I think it's very important that aboriginal corrections be integrated throughout all the regions and be a shared acco

Public Safety committee  No, I believe that the structure we have now is a good one. The other reason is that I'm also responsible for a number of other key files, like our supermax prisons, our special handling unit for who comes in and out, as well as third-level grievances from offenders and commissi

Public Safety committee  You're quite right. In terms of accessing Pathways, you really need to be on a healing path and work extensively with the elder. For the other offenders, obviously the case management team is there, and they're there to try to motivate them. It's the same with the elder. Having

Public Safety committee  With the increased number of black offenders in the Atlantic region, ethnocultural committees provide us with advice. A suggestion was put forward. For indigenous offenders, we have a commissioner's directive that outlines what we do. I know that the ethnocultural committee sugge

Public Safety committee  We have the Stan Daniels Healing Centre in Edmonton, Alberta. We have the Prince Albert Grand Council Spiritual Healing Lodge in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. We have the Waseskun Healing Centre in Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez, Quebec. We have a healing lodge for women, which is calle

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. It's the next step in—

Public Safety committee  Yes, absolutely. Healing lodges are minimum security institutions. All offenders have a correctional plan. Their correctional plan is good from the time they come in to the time they leave. In the healing lodge they have to continue to work on the objectives outlined in their co