Thank you, Chair.
Commissioner Head, on the back page of your speaking notes you state that:
With respect to the impact of C-25 on the Correctional Service of Canada, it is important to note that while additional offenders would now receive a federal sentence and come to CSC, the majority of offenders impacted [by Bill C-25] would be those that would have already received a federal sentence. However, they would now receive a longer sentence and therefore stay longer in our system.
Further down that page you talk about accommodation challenges. Mr. Sapers already testified that close to 10% of the current inmate population is already double-bunked.
I just saw a two-hour documentary on the prison system last night that came out of the United States on how they're double- and triple-bunked there and have been for 10 years and more, the rate of violence, the increase of violence within the correctional services there, and the increased rate of recidivism as a result of not having access to any kind of treatment, any kind of core programming, etc. We're being told by the ombudsman that already CSC is facing accommodation challenges, human resources challenges, and programming challenges, and now you're telling us that the impact of Bill C-25 will be to increase those challenges.
How much more money has the federal government allotted to CSC in order to create those permanent accommodations, in order to fill those vacant staffing positions, the medical health officers, within CSC in order to provide the core programming, the treatment programming, the substance abuse programming? How much more money have you received from this government in order to meet the challenges that you already have now and the increased challenges that Bill C-25 will represent to CSC?