Thank you for your question.
Indeed, we are working with many national voluntary organizations once the inmates have served their sentences and are released into the community. That includes the John Howard Society, the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, the Salvation Army, the 7th Step Society of Canada, and the St. Leonard's Society.
The grants we had in place were providing a total of $1.1 million annually to 15 organizations. We have provided funding until 2014, and now we are evaluating the funding under this initiative. We are reviewing it. I'm expecting some feedback from my departmental official.
It is important that we be there at the different steps, but it is also important to send a signal that there's zero tolerance for attacking a child. That's also what is behind this bill, not only for a child in Canada, but also for a child abroad. This is why I strongly support Minister MacKay imposing mandatory minimum sentences. This is a crime that has to be clearly stated for what it is: despicable and socially unacceptable. As you know, we are putting measures in place. If an individual who has been convicted will be travelling abroad, even for a short time, he will have to report to the authorities, and the information will flow....