Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thank you to the witnesses for being here.
Ms. Kennedy, I want to start with you because I want to challenge you on the position you've taken with regard to the availability of treatment, particularly at the provincial level. It's not great at the federal level by any means either, but at the provincial level there are any number of provinces where it's basically non-existent for the short-term sentences that we're going to have here--the 90-day to the one-year-. It just doesn't exist. That's my experience, and I'm actually calling witnesses who are going to say that.
Again, the government is dumping this cost on the provinces, with no corresponding finances going with it. Am I wrong? Every experience I've had, both as a practising lawyer and in my seven years on this committee, tells me and all the evidence I've heard says that we don't have those services at the provincial level. And the vast majority of the mandatory minimums that are going to be affected here, that are actually going to come into play, are going to be at the provincial level. They're not two years plus, they're two years less. So I just don't see it there.