Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all our witnesses.
Minister, Mr. Garrison probably stole a bit of my thunder. I was going to ask about the corrections issue.
Of course, two years goes by rather quickly. I remember well that in the general election in 2011 the NDP were making much ado about a prison agenda that we were trying to drive. You certainly cleared the record quite well.
But you talked about $428.4 million in net decrease due to a lower projection of inmate populations. Those, of course, were the projections that your own department made. Mr. Garrison points out that there are higher numbers of inmates in the correctional system now than in the past, but I think it would be safe to say that they are relative to the increase of the Canadian population generally. Can you quickly touch on this?
Then I'll ask a totally different vein of questions. You touched on $1.5 billion saved in prisons that weren't required. Can you expand a bit on that aspect?