It is an obstacle. Often your résumé carries with it what you were doing for the last two or three or four years. But as Mr. Wheeler and others mentioned, with some of the activities we've undertaken with community employment counsellors and some of the partnerships we've formed, people are aware of records and do take the opportunity to work with our inmates. Our main objective is to return these offenders as Canadian taxpayers, and I think many see it in that particular fashion.
On December 6th, 2011. See this statement in context.