Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and I thank our witness for attending today.
I can say that in a previous Parliament I had the privilege of visiting Kingston Penitentiary, and I did go to an area where persons were treated for mental illness, because that was the purpose of the study: looking into mental illness and other aspects of our prison system. We know that one of the reasons we have people in our facilities—federal facilities as well as provincial, I suspect—is because during the.... This is a western hemispheric phenomenon that we closed, and rightly so, some of the institutions where we warehoused people with mental illness. Of course some fell through the cracks and ended up in our prisons primarily because of that, and that leads me into the question of the self-medicated with drugs.
You're a doctor. Can I ask if you are a clinical psychologist or a psychiatrist?