Thanks very much, Mr. Head.
I think there is, as Mr. Norlock said, a great deal of agreement around the table on the value of both prison work and the vocational training programs. The annual report of the correctional investigator cited lower rates of admission to segregation, fewer institutional charges, higher parole grant rates, and the fact that those who are released are more likely to obtain and hold a job in the community. I think everybody understands that.
What I want to ask about is a report that your department prepared for the minister in May of 2012, which is a bit less sunny than the report that you presented to us this morning. I want to quote from that report. It said:
One of the biggest weaknesses of CORCAN is the absence of any correlation between either the work or the vocational training programs with labour market analyses. Training inmates for the jobs of yesterday, or for non-existent jobs, or for jobs in already over-resourced fields in competition with non-offenders is a waste of scarce resources and counterproductive to public safety.
That's the report in 2012. My question is, given that since 2012 you've had an increase in your system from 14,000 to 15,000 roughly, have you had additional resources to allow people to access these programs, and what else has changed to give us this sunny report we got today, compared to your very critical internal report in May 2012?