Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome again to the minister and the officials. It's good to see you back before us.
Minister, in your remarks you were clear that the government has been very committed to an aggressive justice agenda, and from this side of the House we don't disagree with you on that. In fact, if you take into consideration the bill you were just talking about, it started from the NDP with the Lucky Moose story where the member for Trinity—Spadina, Olivia Chow, put it before the House. So we're on the same page in some areas. In some other areas, of course we'll have philosophical differences.
One of the things that comes to mind is we're living in a stagnant economy right now. I'm not going to point fingers. I'm not going to seek to blame, but it's a reality, so the question that comes to mind that follows on what Madame Boivin was talking about is it looks like we're facing a kind of across-the-board adjustment or cuts. When you look at where you believe things are situated, are there areas you would be giving extra consideration to if you had the opportunity?
What I'm really leading up to is if you've had an effective justice agenda where you put a number of folks behind bars, then we have to have an agenda for rehabilitation to ensure that when they come out they will go back into society as productive members.
I am just curious about whether we can expect that to become a priority one day soon.