Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for being here.
I was wondering if we could try to step back and look at the big picture a bit.
If the name of the your department is Correctional Service Canada, it is implied in the name that something has gone wrong in the first place. Otherwise, we wouldn't be correcting something. I was wondering if you could step back and look at the big picture, think of all your years of experience in this sector and answer for the committee what could be done to have fewer people interacting with the justice system in the first place.
It would be nice if we didn't have people committing crimes in the first place. It would be nice if we didn't have 15,000 people incarcerated in this country in the first place.
What can we do? Do we need better education? Do we need better poverty reduction? What can be done?