Wayne Easter at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

On January 27th, 2015. See this statement in context.

January 27th, 2015 / 10:15 a.m.

Liberal

Wayne Easter Liberal Malpeque, PE

It could be a number of problems combined, I'm sure—anger management and addiction, etc. So it's $23 million then, in total.

Coming back to the numbers the minister raised, he said there was a 95% success rate for people who take programming. Can you expand on that a little more?

Is that 95% success rate on programming just for substance abuse? What percentage success rate would that be in terms of the prison population?

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