This seems extremely important to me, Mr. Head, and you will agree. In the 2008-2009 annual report of the Office of the Correctional Investigator, the investigator said, in recommendation 10: “With respect to correctional programming, I recommend that in the coming year, the Correctional Service make significant progress...”. It is not enough to simply offer a program, for instance to show someone how to do woodwork, but it should help to reduce wait lists, or to give more day passes—there was a bottleneck, there was not enough staff and the staff that was there was not properly trained to handle day passes—to improve the access to programs and to enhance the programs that are offered to offenders who have special needs.
In my opinion, this is at the heart of our debate. Inmates are overcrowded in a place or an establishment, inmates are poorly served because the staff cannot meet the demand created by their needs, these inmates are not allowed day passes, and they are very unhappy and dissatisfied, they are forbidden to see their family. This creates discontent that could lead to explosive situations. We would like to hear what you have to say about this. How are you going to manage all those risks? It is good that you have come to this committee to tell us that you are going to add 4,000 extra persons to your services. However, how are you going to manage the small budget, the 10 % of the budget that you have left, so that the inmates as well as the people who work inside can function and live in a perfectly safe environment?