I don't want to take up too much of your time. I think Mr. Wilson has given you a fairly clear picture.
What I would like to add is that our typical participants in drug treatment court programs are people who are severely marginalized individuals. They are also very expensive citizens. They are heavy, heavy consumers of resources within the community. They are often in and out of jails. They have no housing. About 85% of our participants are without housing when they enter the program.
We're looking at a type of person who commits crimes. There are policing costs involved in bringing them before the courts and the cost of prosecuting them. They're jailed, then they get out, and they're generally housed within the shelter system until such a time as they commit another crime and the whole process starts again.
These people haven't had jobs for many years. Their income is primarily provided by social services and through their criminal activities. They can commit substantial amounts of crime, even at small levels. A person with a $500-a-week crack cocaine habit will support that habit, if they're shoplifting, for instance, by stealing approximately $5,000 worth of goods, because they get about a 10% commission from the people they're selling to.
We're also dealing with people who don't have family doctors, so most of their health care is occurring through accessing emergency departments in hospitals. I consider them to be very expensive citizens.
When they come into the drug treatment court, the system is supported, not just by justice and the treatment provider, but also by the community. In Toronto, we have the benefit of approximately 50 community partners on our advisory committee and many more that provide direct services to our clients.
We use the court to start coordinating the delivery of services for these people. We're getting them into community health centres and substantially reducing their health care costs from the get-go. We're hooking them up with community colleges and getting them back in school.
Ultimately, the goal of the program is to get people engaged in the community, to end the criminal behaviour that's associated with supporting their drug use, and then to get them employed. At the end of the day, that means a successful drug treatment court participant is paying taxes and actually returning some of the costs that were initially borne by the program.
Beyond that, I would leave things for your questions.