You are right to say that there will always be crime. Of course, there are things we can do, and I believe my colleagues addressed most of the critical points in terms of crime prevention.
But there is another point that needs to be made, and it relates to mental health. We know that 10 per cent of federal inmates are considered to be suffering from mental health problems. That is not something we established yesterday; we have come to that conclusion over a certain period of time. I believe that we have to do what is necessary at the federal and provincial levels — and, of course, health care is primarily a provincial responsibility in Canada — to ensure that there are increased investments in mental health in the communities. If we do not do that, people with mental health problems will continue to end up in police cells, and then in provincial and federal penitentiaries.
I can tell you that at the federal level, in the institutions where people are serving minimum mandatory sentences of two, three, or five years, and so on, 90 per cent of the inmates already had a criminal record at the provincial level, or as juveniles, before entering the federal system.
So, it is the community that is critical. We need to invest in the measures that have been mentioned by my colleagues, as well as in mental health.