Mr. Sapers, I've heard you testify previously, not on this particular committee but before the public safety committee, which I'm on. You pointed out, in terms of the various pieces of criminal justice legislation going through, essentially that we have undercapacity, that we don't have appropriate mental health care programs in prisons, and that there are various funding issues.
To be fair to the government on this particular bill, I looked at statistics for 2008-09. In 2008, of the persons who applied, only 109 were successful. In 2009, it was only 131.
In terms of this bill and how many people are actually granted this parole early who would presumably be prevented now, this isn't really the problem in terms of the overall structure, because we're really talking about a handful of prisoners.