In those situations, when we in Parliament are trying to evaluate how well our correctional system is operating—this is just a comment—it seems as if we don't get the unvarnished truth.
Now, I'm not going to ask you to comment on this specific scenario. I did some work and produced a video on it. Correctional Service Canada put out a press release after somebody escaped. The release said the person escaped from “institutional property”. The person was in medium security. For those who don't know, that means two very large fences surround the institution. It's the same as maximum, in fact. It's very difficult to escape from. The service put out a bulletin saying he escaped from the grounds of medium security. That sounds fine. However, the information I had was that this person was actually allowed to be outside the fence. That was a pretty material omission, in my view. If you say that someone escaped from medium security, I picture them jumping over two razor-wire fences about 20 feet apart and 12 feet high. That's a pretty material omission. It's kind of like what we sometimes see in Parliament—telling half the truth. “It's true. He was on the grounds.”
Can you comment not specifically on this case but on whether this type of thing is a surprise, given your experience?