Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's certainly a pleasure, Mr. Page. I think the last time we met was when I was co-chair of the Joint Standing Committee on the Library of Parliament, during the vetting process. It's nice to see you at committee again.
I'm going to follow up a little bit on what my colleague Mr. Woodworth said. I want to know first and foremost, however, what in your analysis the cost is of dealing with the Truth In Sentencing Act. There's a base amount of money that it costs to run any facility, whether it's the Parliament buildings or a business or whatever. I'm talking about baseline operation costs: keeping the lights on, keeping the heat going, paying the associated costs. Do the numbers you gave us on the cost of incarceration per inmate reflect those costs as an actual, true, per-inmate cost? Or are the costs simply the total expenditures by Correction Services divided by the number of inmates who have been incarcerated? Could you give me some information on that?
I think it would be quite helpful for me as a parliamentarian to know what the true cost is. If we added one more person to the prison, is it actually going to be the $150,000 or $147,000 that your report indicates, or is it going to be somewhat less, given the fact that there are more inmates being incarcerated at this point in time? The base costs shouldn't really change all that much.