Thank you.
Mr. Woods, normally I agree with Mr. Ménard, and maybe it's because he's so collegial, but I disagree with his comments on your testimony. I think you're one of the best witnesses we've ever had, because we very seldom have witnesses take both sides of a case. You gave me a number of very good reasons that I wasn't aware of against this bill when you spoke about the things that can happen, the problems that can happen, with increased incarceration. So I appreciate you for going into that depth.
You also mentioned the support of Elizabeth Fry for early intervention and crime prevention, as did Mr. Thompson and Mr. Harper. I hope you'll just encourage Mr. Harper to get the departments to start approving the crime prevention projects, because, as you said, those are good, and this summer they just all went on hold. I've been fighting to get some projects approved, and they're not approving any; they're all on hold...and that would help us all. We wouldn't have to do bills like this that don't necessarily work.
I was glad to also hear you talk about the root causes and how it's important to deal with those. The head of the Toronto police said that on the front page of the paper a couple of weeks ago too, that in terms of the problems with the murders in Toronto, it was the root causes that needed to be worked on. I wonder if you could elaborate on that. I think that's a very important point, actually, and I agree with you.