Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for appearing before the committee today. I appreciate your time.
Mr. Sapers, the correctional investigator, has long criticized Correctional Service of Canada for refusing to give the deputy commissioner for women full and direct authority for all matters affecting female prisoners, given that it is widely felt that by empowering the deputy commissioner for women, they would be much more able to serve the interests of female inmates. In fact, the correctional investigator has gone so far as to say that if the recommendations of the Arbour commission had been implemented, it's quite possible that the tragedy of Ashley Smith wouldn't have happened.
Why have those recommendations not been heeded, and why have Mr. Sapers' concerns not been recognized and implemented?
I'll go to Mr. Hyppolite first.