Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
My name is Larry Motiuk. I'm currently the director general of offender programs and reintegration at the Correctional Service of Canada, at national headquarters. I have been in that position for a year. For 13 years prior to that I was the director general of the research branch for the Correctional Service of Canada. Like Dr. Bonta, I began my correctional career in the provincial system. I started working in field work placement as a student in 1979, stayed on to work until 1988 in the provincial system, and then moved on to federal corrections in 1998.
My background is mostly in research, as you can imagine. I have done quite a bit of work in the area of assessment, treatment, and program efficacy. The areas I've worked on in particular with the Correctional Service of Canada are on conditional release supervision standards, sex offenders, high-risk violent offenders, as well as the assessment processes and the treatment programs.
I am also an adjunct research professor at Carleton University and have worked with students over the years, particularly in the area of psychology. I hold a PhD in psychology.
I am here to answer as best I can questions you may have with respect to any of the issues in administration of the sentence and the management and treatment of offenders in the Correctional Service of Canada.