Madam Chair, I understand the timing of the bill, and I'm not trying to hold the bill up at all. I'm suggesting that even if the information came after the bill was passed, it would still give government some information of the population and sometimes things can be mitigated in other ways. I would simply like to know how many of those inmates have dependent spouses and dependent children. Potentially, there's a disabled person in that family as well as a disabled child; we don't know. I think it's worthwhile to know this, since we're making financial decisions for those families. That's all I'm asking, even if it means some information comes after the bill is passed. I'm not trying to hold up the bill. That's fine. It simply gives us information that maybe government can look at and decide to mitigate the situation or not. It's worthwhile to have.
On October 26th, 2010. See this statement in context.