But they have an unlimited ability to pay. They've told us that. There's no ceiling on the money they will spend on prisons. If you started pulling a right to unsafe work every day for the next 30 days, you could write your own cheque. You would just say “sign here” because they'd give it to you. They have to.
They need the prisons. They need the prisons because that's all they're offering the Canadian public. Everything else is cutting, hacking, slashing. Prisons are building, building, building. That's their empire. That's the glory that is Harper's Rome: his one big prison.