I would suggest that many Canadians, if not most or all Canadians, would agree that criminals need to be punished, and they need to serve the time they have been sentenced to. But another piece to that is to try to prevent these people from going down the way of crime in the beginning.
I wonder if the minister would be able to answer on the level of funding that has been committed to the youth gang prevention fund for this year, 2011-12. I think it is important that we try to reach out to these youth before they enter into a life of crime.