Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First of all, I want to thank Pierre for being here this morning and I want to thank the men and women who serve in our correctional system, especially the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers. They have been doing a wonderful job and I'm very thankful for their service to Canada.
This may be for another day, but I also want to acknowledge that you work under extreme and very difficult circumstances, and a lot of times your safety is a concern to your members. I want to assure you that we on this side of the House are also concerned about the safety of men and women who are providing an essential service to Canada.
Pierre, if you had to say one thing, just very briefly.... We've seen, over the years, a number of preventative programs being put in place where we have sniffer dogs, metal detectors, and such. Have these reduced drug usage or the number of drugs available to the inmates? You've had 25 years' of experience. Are they still able to access drugs, even with all of this detection and dogs and all of that?