Thank you, Mr. Di Luca, for your presentation and your presence.
I have a number of questions for you, and I'm going to help my friend Mr. Comartin with one of his.
According to Corrections Canada, as of August 2009 there were 457 individuals in Canada who had been convicted and imprisoned for multiple murders. Of those, 26% have been granted parole.
I was alarmed by that number. First I thought it must be a misprint. I thought it must be 26, but actually it's 26%. So that's 100: one out of four. I've asked officials to verify that statistic and they tell me it's accurate. If that is in fact the case, how do you reconcile that with your suggestion in your opening that this is mere optics, that there is no operative discount? Twenty-six per cent of multiple murderers have in fact been paroled.