As a matter of fact, Mr. Chair, we are not decreasing funding for those courts.
I'm glad you've raised the issue. I think this is an excellent effort and a worthwhile initiative. You touched on that in your comments. The idea that we can get people diverted, get them off drugs, and at the same time protect the public is very worthwhile in pursuing. You would know, and I'm sure our colleagues here would know, that when individuals get addicted to drugs it is a very difficult process to get them off. To get them in and out of the criminal justice system is not what we want to see happen. We don't want to see them coming back again and again.
As Minister of Justice, as one of your colleagues, I had an opportunity to have a look at what is being done, and I can tell you I was quite impressed with it. I was impressed with it because it seems to me to be a positive initiative. We're actually doing something that will make an improvement so that we don't get these individuals back in court.
That helps everybody. For the individual who is not back wasting his life, getting caught up in the criminal justice system, of course it's a huge improvement. But it also helps the Canadian public, because they don't see these individuals go back again and again.
In terms of the actual details of the funding, my colleague Mr. Sims can provide you with that.