Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good afternoon. Thank you for being here and for helping us with this study. I have a question for Ms. Pate.
I'll summarize what you said: the correctional institutions, the penitentiaries, are not really places where individuals with mental health problems can be managed. The Correctional Service, it has to be admitted, is really based on risk management.
In your opinion, are the psychiatric hospitals of the various provinces able to manage the risk that a person who has a mental health problem and who is a criminal may present? Do they very readily do that, currently, in the case of former inmates, perhaps? Ultimately, could the 20% who are in the correctional system and who are identified as very ill simply be managed in psychiatric hospitals?