Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Minister, although we've signalled our support for this legislation, Mr. Lemay's is with some reservation. I heard you give us assurances from the Minister of Public Safety, but have you actually seen any analysis or studies of how many more people are going to be in our provincial jails, not our holding pens but our provincial jails and our federal prisons, if the one to one is applied or if the one and a half to one is applied? Has there been any analysis so we know absolute numbers?
I want to say to you as a comment that I have serious doubts. When I was sitting on public safety, all the evidence I heard from Corrections was that all of our prisons, with one or two exceptions, were already full. If we're talking, as I think we are here, of several hundred and probably closer to 2,000 a year more people being in our provincial and federal prisons, we do not have the capacity to take them.