When we look at the annual appropriation relative to the inmate population, one of the things we note is that if you look at the proportion of the labour force relative to inmate count, you're looking at a one-to-one relationship. If you consider that those costs are largely human-resource-based and rooted in a collective agreement, you can get a sense that many of these costs are in fact variable over a relatively short term. So as this piece of legislation goes through, one would expect that the labour costs would increase in proportion to that population, at least directionally.
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