Thank you.
They did not judge that one was superior to another. I argue in this article that is being published next spring that it's a philosophical choice that you, the parliamentarians, must make. Which principle do you wish to emphasize? I certainly wouldn't presume to tell you.
In the debate and all the literature, there seems to be an extraordinary emphasis on rehabilitation. So I piggy-backed on that assumption and said, okay, there seems to be an emphasis on rehabilitation in the Department of Justice, in a lot of the research on their website on public safety, and in the literature published by criminologists. So I took that as the assumption.
Now to deal with your point, the data I used is from published documents on the public record from Correctional Service Canada. I draw your attention to the safe return document. I have all the stuff electronically on this laptop, including some 400 articles dealing with this broader subject. So the data is from the safe return document and the statistical overview document from Correctional Service.
What triggered my approach--and this is again from memory, but it's in this computer--was that in 1994, 1996, 1999, and 2004, the Office of the Auditor General of Canada looked into this question. It's a kind of obvious question. If we are sending people to federal penitentiaries, how long does it take to rehabilitate them, given that a lot of people agree that is the purpose? So this data I quoted you is from two or three of the documents. I can give you the precise citations after, if you wish.
The safe return document and the statistical overview are the two that stick in my memory at this moment.