Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am sorry that because of other commitments I couldn't listen to Professor Hoffert's and Professor Geist's presentations.
I would like to follow up on what my colleague Mr. Wappel started to talk about: the breakdown of the law and order system. That is an overriding problem that I'm really concerned about—besides the health and safety factor, which of course is important. If you don't deal with the fairness issue to make sure our youth grow up in an environment where the Canadian values of honesty and fairness are preserved, you will see a deterioration in behaviour, and eventually we'll lose what we have.
When I put it into the context of what we're dealing with today and other law and order issues on civil litigation, because of the cost of the legal system we might not get fair play decisions in our daily operations. Also, with the youth justice problem, a lot of the property crimes are not being addressed because of a lack of resources.
If I put this all together, the biggest problem we face today besides legislation is the lack of resources in the whole law and order sector. I think we need to put more resources in it at this time when we have surpluses in government. This is the sector we have ignored for a long time—enforcement, administration, application of the law, and the criminal penal system. How do you respond to that?