Thank you, Minister.
I know your comments are important to Canadians who are watching today from coast to coast to coast. That information is very relevant and very important to them.
Minister, I would like to speak with you briefly about the supplementary estimates (B), and on the Correctional Service of Canada specifically. As our government moved to creating safer streets and communities and we talked about keeping victims safe, there was tremendous noise and comment from our opposition that putting criminals in jail would create a prison system that would be bursting at the seams.
I wonder if you could comment on the supplementary estimates (B). As I look at the information that I have before me, it looks like the Correctional Service of Canada is certainly containing their spending, which would indicate that in fact we're not seeing that happening in our prison system, the prisons bursting at the seams, but rather that the prison population may, and I look for your direction on this, be remaining steady. I wonder if you could comment on that, sir.