Thank you for that.
We've heard and my experience tells me that conditional sentence orders allow offenders to remain embedded in their communities while serving their sentences when, of course, the offence and the crime are such that it's appropriate for them to do that. We know that community support is vital to the process of managing mental health and addiction challenges, which are extremely difficult to treat when people are incarcerated.
I know the minister talked about this, but I would like to know more about what the data shows regarding the difference in the outcomes here for offenders and the community.
To be frank with you, when I was justice minister and attorney general in Nova Scotia, we started the mental health court system. It takes the individual and gives them a wraparound service. In my time, we had a five-year anniversary, and the results that came out of that were that it was unbelievably helpful to the individual, to the community and to everyone involved.
I'm going to give you the time, whatever I have remaining, to elaborate a little on that.