Thank you, Mr. Vice-Chair.
I thank you all for coming and being here. Obviously I support both courts. We're here today to see what we can do to try to improve things.
So I will first focus on mental health.
Dr. Ward, the most concerning thing I've heard today from anyone is one of your initial comments that the persons who are incarcerated have increased as hospital beds have gone down. So I'd like to discuss that first and to find out from you, if you have this expertise, what might be done to reverse that and to get the system back on track, really, the way it should be. It could be as simple as saying we need x number more beds, but I assume there's a little more to it than that.