Yes. If you don't mind, I'll actually go back in time. This coming week it will be 37 years ago that I first started working in a penitentiary. In those days when I started as a correctional officer the kinds of tools that were available to us were pretty limited. It was basically our good sense, our good nose and observation skills. With the investments that we've received over the last five years, we've been able to enhance our ability to better detect drugs coming into the institution.
We have seen an increase in seizures. We've seen an increase in seizures through visitors. We've seen an increase in seizures, unfortunately, of drugs being introduced by some staff members. We've also, as the minister pointed out, seen an increase, which has also been intercepted by our staff, in the introduction of drugs through indirect means, so the use of drugs being tied to arrows and being shot into the yard. We've seen recently the use of drones, these UAVs, starting to hover over our fences with packages being dropped in. We've seen tennis balls that have been hollowed out and launched through grapefruit-gun kinds of things with drugs being shot into the exercise yards. We've even seen dead birds whose insides have been removed and have been launched into the yard with drugs inside to make it look like a bird has fallen from the sky.
We have seen an increase in seizures. I attribute that to the great work of my staff. There's always the debate: do more seizures mean you're doing a better job, or that there are more drugs in the institution? I really don't care which way the debate goes. If drugs are getting in there, our job is to find them and stop them. If the numbers are going up, it means my staff are finding them. At this point in time, I feel relatively comfortable about that.