Perhaps I could add something here.
The people responsible for the supervision, under the Correctional Service of Canada, are probation and parole officers, or they're provincial. In these cases, in 1995, when conditional sentencing was being introduced, the Auditor General said then that their caseload was too high. There hasn't been a great influx of new resources or new officers into the system to do the monitoring or do the supervision. The cost, as we mentioned earlier, is $1,700 a year. That's not a lot of treatment, and not a lot of monitoring.
In terms of the types of offences, on page 11 of our brief you'll see that we have provided statistics from Statistics Canada on where conditional sentences were used--five manslaughter offences, 258 robberies, 307 sexual assaults, and 2,405 drug trafficking offences.
With due respect to Mr. Elliott's presentation--I certainly share some of his concerns in terms of drug use in prison--we would be laughed out of the courtroom if we walked in for people sharing needles, or dealing with small amounts of any drug, and suggesting that this was a drug trafficking offence that should be prosecuted.