Mr. McWhinnie, I think the first thing we need to say is thank you to the services board for the work they have been doing. The statistics are available through numerous published reports and through Corrections Canada reports. Earlier skepticism was expressed about these kinds of projects displacing government money and things that already work, but I have to say that to me what we have sitting here at the table with us is an example of an organization that is extremely successful. To me there is very little prospect, as you were saying, that you could run this same project with private financing, but I don't understand why we'd even want to think about that. This is a group that's already a community-based citizens group. This is not a government program; it's a very effective community-based program.
I just don't understand the government's determination to end the funding for this. I know you can't explain that from your end, but I know in my own community services board, and I know from my work in criminal justice....
Can you talk a little bit about what kind of support you get from communities?