Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Sir, here is a quotation from your presentation:
Many young persons with early symptoms of mental illness are overlooked while years go by and their illness becomes much more difficult to treat. Some of these individuals are certain to end up in trouble with the law as young adults.
I perfectly agree. Part of what we have discovered is that a great proportion of persons who are incarcerated have these difficulties. From my perspective concerning our report, the first part of it, in my view, should be prevention, because if you can prevent people from committing crimes by curing their mental difficulties or their addictions—which was the other part of it, though I won't ask you about that—obviously we are doing something in advance to keep the prison population down and to help people.
I'd like you to be very practical and specific, if possible. I have seen this pamphlet and I know you have done good work. What should we be doing on a very practical basis to try to prevent this? Is it as simple as having psychiatrists or somebody go into schools? What ideas have you come up with to try to prevent this at an early stage?