Thank you, Minister.
So you would agree with me, then, that for people who are addicted and who, for various reasons, have a very difficult time controlling their addiction, the availability of drugs is not helpful, and that this piece of legislation and our concentration on trying to keep our prisons free of drugs go a long way to assisting those who are in our correctional system to be successfully rehabilitated and to rid themselves of this problem. Would you not agree with me that in this social atmosphere, and in the modern social atmosphere in our prisons, we have, of course, the gang issue? I have in my riding one of Canada's largest prisons. It's a medium-security prison. The people who work there—the wonderful men and women who help keep us safe and rehabilitate prisoners—tell me that these medium-security prisons are now getting more dangerous because of the influence of gangs, because of the exterior pressure on family, because of the ingenious ways in which they get drugs into prisons, in some cases—one hates to say it—even in the diapers of the infants who are there for conjugal visits or for visits with their mom or dad.
I wonder if you could comment on those modern-day realities we're faced with in our prisons today.