Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The group I want to specifically speak to would be the prison guards, correctional services.
I find that most of the recommendations are sound. I think we've had some good witnesses who have presented their cases. But I'm concerned about some of the flaws in the system now. And although we can improve on this act--and as Mr. Flaherty pointed out last week, there definitely is some room for improvement--there is also room for improvement of some of the flaws. It appears that is a very serious flaw.
I would like to know, too--and I don't know if we've studied that or asked enough questions--whether or not there are other flaws in the system. But that seems to be a glaring error, or there has to be something there so we avoid having this happen if we make amendments to the act. I want to know what, first of all, is going on. I really want to uncover that. We probably could devote one of the meetings just to the correctional services.
The other thing--and I mentioned his name too, and no disrespect to any of the witnesses--is that Mr. Flaherty was a wealth of information. And I wouldn't mind, once we compile this thing, if we want to look at him one more time. I don't know if we were finished. That particular day we went right to 5:30, and I think most of us had two hours of bombardment. That was the day you left. He pretty much socked it to us for two hours. There was mental fatigue, I think, more than anything else. And Mr. Tilson was the chair at the time and it was like, “Okay, we've heard enough for a while”, but I'm not sure if we heard everything we want to hear from Mr. Flaherty. I think his presentation was excellent. So those are the two I would suggest.
Most definitely we have to get to the bottom of the problem we're experiencing in the correctional services.