Public Safety committee  Absolutely. Although I referenced Stats Canada, we actually use the SDC data, and we do share it within both CORCAN and Correctional Services Canada, including with the community employment counsellors who are out in the community, so that we can position our offenders as well as

Public Safety committee  We have a limited footprint in the community from a CORCAN perspective. We have three: Community Industries in Moncton, the national engineering centre that I referenced earlier in Laval, and our CORCAN warehouse in Kingston. Through those three we have hired about 103 inmates. T

Public Safety committee  There's not, per se, a waiting list with CORCAN. We have openings in our shops. It differs every day. Inmates are released; inmates go off to other programs, so it's a very dynamic situation. But no, there's nobody who's not getting into a CORCAN shop because there's no availabil

Public Safety committee  No, not at all. I'll just address the FTC question. In terms of the shops at FTC, we had new shops built for us which have just come online, so part of the delay in working in the shops was that. The masonry program is still at FTC—I just saw it when I was there in early Decemb

Public Safety committee  I'm not aware of how big it was before, but they were doing beautiful work when I was there.

Public Safety committee  I'll just add one thing. Currently in one of our shops in Alberta we already do some of the pipefitting pieces. We do manufacture them, so we are starting there. When I looked at some of the opportunities in oil and gas—I'll just refer back to what the commissioner said—it is e

Public Safety committee  May I answer that? I was actually quite surprised. I didn't realize that food processing was so big. When I was out west, I actually did meet with the CEO of a food processing company looking to partner with us. When he was talking about providing employment on the outside as we

Public Safety committee  Almost 10 minutes.

Public Safety committee  The payroll statistics are put out by Statistics Canada. In terms of the top 10 that we fit into, there's manufacturing; construction; administration and support, waste management and remediation; accommodation and food services; professional, scientific, and technical services—a

Public Safety committee  No, these are labour market trends that come from Statistics Canada. They list 21 in total, and we went for the top 10 and looked at those.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Since I've come in what we've done is look at them on a quarterly basis, because that's how they come out. We are aligning our vocational strategy to the on-the-job training. We've looked at what we've offered in the past for vocational skills, and now we're saying that if an ins

Public Safety committee  Yes, we are working with construction industries across the country. I look at our partnerships on three different levels. One is government partnership. We're really partnering well with other agencies and departments within government. We've talked about CBSA. We've done six o

Public Safety committee  We look at Statistics Canada—I think it's the top 21 jobs—and I am pleased to say that we're in seven of the top 10. We're very much where the labour market needs are. We look at them nationally and then we look at them regionally as well. Some of our business lines are not. Lau

Public Safety committee  It is a high need, and we are not participating at this point, but we've been looking at various opportunities and have been in early conversations with different industries. We're also looking at some of the colleges, because there are colleges that offer the programs as well. O