Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to return to a point that Mr. Maguire raised about our attitude on this side of the table.
We see this fundamentally as a question of what priorities the committee has. We haven't said there aren't good things in the study we're doing. We're saying it seems a very narrow study when there are much bigger problems to be looking at. I also see the discussion—and this is one of my concerns about social finance ideas and crime prevention—often straying into other good social development projects, which have very little directly to do with crime prevention. We have limited resources to spend on the actual crime prevention programs, which actually work quite well in this country and which other people look to as models of what's happening.
I'm really still wondering why such large emphasis is being given to this when our crime rate is dropping and we've had a lot of success—I'll give credit—under the national crime prevention strategy. We've had a lot of successes.
So what is the motivation? Is it really just tapping new money, as you're talking about?