Public Safety committee  I appreciate your point, and I think there clearly are areas where government must remain involved. I do think high-risk offenders would be one area and mental health would be another, particularly when you're dealing with offenders. It isn't to say that we can't find different k

Public Safety committee  Habitat is the perfect example. The federal government launched a national partnership with Habitat for Humanity last spring, and while my department does not produce all the funding that goes into that partnership, it is through the horizontal partnerships we have established, a

Public Safety committee  I think that by and large the concept of social financing is not a black and white equation. I think the ability for us to find partners in the community who leverage resources there that aren't necessarily financial, but could be in-kind contributions from partners, means that i

Public Safety committee  The NCPC budget is currently in the range of $41 million. As a result of the deficit reduction action plan, it was reduced by about $1 million. In my department the difficulty is that between the first nation policing program and the crime prevention program, those are the larges

Public Safety committee  Over the last four years, in fact, as a result of the reformulation of this program in 2008—we basically had to restructure ourselves and get our footing again—we were actually lapsing money. Right now, the amount of money we're putting out the door is the highest we've ever do

Public Safety committee  These are five-year projects. So over the course of these investments, we are able to track individuals for the duration of the program. We are unable to monitor them beyond the five-year funding. That is the way the program is designed. Five years of tracking and gathering data

Public Safety committee  We are pulling together that information. I don't have the unsuccessful programs with me today. Suffice it to say, as I described to you in my last appearance, we basically categorize our investments in three ways: proven programs, promising programs, and new programs. If you'r

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes. That's the simple answer. I'm aware of his presentation to you, and I am aware of his statistics. I don't know the sources of all of his statistics. We are in the midst of working with CoSA in terms of doing an evaluation of the program that we have been funding, and that

Public Safety committee  We are in the midst of preparing a fairly extensive package for you based on the questions you posed the last time I was here. We're trying to look at some of the programs that deal with alternative suspensions, the stop now and plan community-based program for children 6 to 11 w

Public Safety committee  The focus of the program at this point in time is around youth. But indeed in that context we do look at addictions and drugs as a major component of the programming that we're doing, so drug interventions and whatnot. There is some element of mental health that builds into that,

Public Safety committee  Correct.

Public Safety committee  I think theoretically all of these are options that we should and can consider—

Public Safety committee  —as possibilities. As I said earlier, I've been working in this area for eight years and I was a huge fan of what the Brits had done. I am becoming quite skeptical of the model that the Brits have put in place, and I would point to Peterborough as a perfect example of cheating

Public Safety committee  It's one of the elements that will be different in Canada from what you might appreciate in other countries, such as the U.K. and the United States. Canada does not have the depth of philanthropic spending that you would see through the charitable trusts and the foundations in ei