About three or four years ago, I and several members of the House on the Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs had an opportunity to visit the Toronto court. All of the parties were very impressed with the way the court was being run. It wasn't your typical criminal court at all. It struck us that there was a fair bit of infrastructure in the court—public, taxpayer paid, some volunteers. It was professional infrastructure, all of which cost money, but it appeared to be well worth it.
I would say that the drug treatment courts aim for and obtain better outcomes for individuals than they would receive from the traditional courts. In the traditional system, they are processed, classified, put in jail for eight months, and then sent back on the street to steal somebody else's car. Would you agree that there are consistently better outcomes in the program managed by the drug treatment court?