Thank you very much, Minister.
I have particular interest, of course, because one of Canada's largest prisons is within my riding, and I have a particular interest in some of the investments we've made in our prison system. But in particular, I want to talk about something that you alluded to in your response to my friend across the way. The NDP member Peter Julian said that—and this was in the last Parliament, of which I was a member—we would have to spend $19 billion to build new prisons, even though we actually closed two.
I wonder if you could give us your thoughts with regard to what the estimates are—and we could even leave that overexaggeration—in the prison population, and what were the actualities.
Could you talk further about what our intention is to do with those moneys that have been saved, and you, of course, mentioned one of them, and that's the announcement you made today.