I would like to thank you for appearing this morning and sharing with us your experience with regard to the matter at hand.
I was surprised to learn about this situation. It is a bit as if it had been overlooked or forgotten. The people who are incarcerated are not only housed, fed and cleaned, they also receive Old Age Security. You have raised similar concerns to those of Ms. Gagnon. Furthermore, it is important not to compromise certain basic principles. The parties were all quick to agree that this was something we had to deal with and that the fact that prisoners were housed and fed did not in itself constitute a financial benefit. I think that Ms. Gagnon has also raised that issue. That will lead to a question on amendments that Ms. Gagnon, for example, could put forward in that regard.
As well, in debating such bills, I am always surprised by the fact that we talk about our concerns for victims' rights, but the bills do not contain any redress measures for victims given what they have had to endure.
Allow me to explain. Could we not take the opportunity afforded by such a bill to create a fund for victims? Ms. Rosenfeldt, I think that your experience could be quite instructive in that regard. Someone who was robbed and left with a disability as a result can no longer earn a living as before. As a result, the victim no longer has the same income and will experience a life-long reduction in earnings. Would it not be possible to create a victims' compensation fund using the revenues gained by such measures?