Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Clause 63 contains a provision that allows an order for restitution to be made in respect of any property damaged or destroyed as a result of an offence against the Corrections and Conditional Release Act. It also provides that there can be segregation from other inmates, with or without restrictions, on visits with family, friends, and other persons from outside the penitentiary, with a 30-day limit on it.
Someone recently wrote in the paper about how some of the provisions of this act, instead of modernizing our corrections system, actually bring it back to the 18th century, where some of the rules for prisoners included that they weren't allowed to have visits from family and friends, or from anyone outside the penitentiary. That this was—
