I think my colleague, Tom, has touched on it, and so has Clayton.
We've talked publicly in different forums about the public safety continuum. It's not just policing, jail, corrections, parole, probation, Crown attorneys or judges, but also homelessness, addictions and vocational training.
In the provincial system, there is very little of all of the vocational training or addiction treatments. Your sentence is two years less a day, because it's a provincial sentence, not federal time, so that's great. All of a sudden, you're going to be out in six or nine months on parole, but you haven't had treatment. You don't have a place to live, and nobody has trained you for a new job. What are going to do?
There's also the issue that our members see, which is that the regionalization of services in the provinces has become a challenge. For example, Whatì, Northwest Territories, is three and a half hours away from Yellowknife. If I am to appear in provincial court in the Northwest Territories, I'll be going to Yellowknife. I'm going to get picked up, and maybe I'll get remanded and sent down to Yellowknife, but perhaps I'll get released on bail. Does the system give me a bus ticket back to my home community of Whatì, or do I have to hitchhike? The same thing happens in Prince George, Fort Nelson and Fort St. John. Just from the regionalization of our systems, have we put those offenders at greater risk of reoffending?