They are several. They are very much aligned with our overall transformation agenda.
The first priority is about ensuring we have safe and secure institutions across the country. If we do not have safe and secure environments in which the staff can work and in which offenders can choose to participate in the programs that are being offered to them, then we're not going to be effective.
The second priority is around making sure we have the most modern assessment capacity to assess the needs of offenders, so that we in turn can develop the most effective correctional plans that will allow us, again, to address the needs of the offenders. Then, based on that, it's making sure we have the most effective—empirically based effective—programs for offenders to address their needs, both while they serve their time in the institutions and while they transition into the community under our supervision.
As well, I'm trying to make sure that we have a good, strong human resource capacity, so we are recruiting the best men and women from across the country to work in our organization; that we provide them the best learning and development opportunities; and that we have a good, strong retention strategy for keeping people within the organization. Collectively, it is trying to make sure we have a good, strong continuum for delivering correctional services.
At the same time, one of my priorities is to make sure we're well connected to what I would call the front end of the system and the back end of the system. I believe very strongly that there is a lot more work we could be doing in terms of our relationships with the communities, with the criminal justice system, and with the social service agencies that address some of the issues we face and deal with on an ongoing basis.
Unfortunately, as the member may know, Correctional Services Canada becomes the point in the continuum where the expectation is that we address all the social problems that have been unaddressed for a period of time. So I am trying to make sure we are much better connected at both the front end and the back end, so that people coming into the system have many of the issues, which we have to face now, addressed ahead of time, and at the same time, once they move beyond our responsibility—beyond warrant expiry—that they have access to the types of services and supports they need in order to stay out in the community and function as law-abiding citizens.