The issue that's extremely important here is to ensure that the offender has all the information that the board members get when making the decision. There are no secret papers that aren't made available to the offender. The offender has all the information that the board members have, which is provided by CSC, and then the board members review the file and make their determination.
In the last two years the Parole Board of Canada has seen some of the best parole outcomes in more than a decade and a half, more than 15 years. For example, 99% of federal day parole periods and almost 97% of federal full parole periods were successfully completed by offenders without reoffending in 2013-14. Those are very good rates. In addition, more than 99% of the parole periods, both day and full, were successfully completed without a violent offence occurring. This is up to their WED.
The board has invested heavily in board member training over the last five years. As the chair, when I came here we determined that we needed to develop a stronger risk assessment regime and we developed a number of standardized tools to support high-quality decision-making for board members right across the country. You can see some of these positive results that are occurring. The ones who have worked to be released back into the community as law-abiding citizens are those who have made it. The others are being denied and are still in our institutions working on their next opportunity for a parole hearing.