Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to go back to something my colleague Mr. Garrison said about the programs that suffered cuts in a prison in his riding.
There are several federal prisons in Laval. In one of them, the Federal Training Centre, many training programs were offered to male inmates. The programs included masonry, building trades, traffic control for road construction, and so on. Over the past few years, the centre was basically forced to eliminate its programs because of a lack of funding. Instructors lost more and more of their hours or were hired on contract. Was all that connected? Those trades being taught at the Federal Training Centre were very much in demand in the province of Quebec. Did this happen because there were not enough people interested in the programs or because of a lack of funding from Correctional Service Canada? What happened with those programs?
This seems to be the trend in a number of places with specific programs. This has nothing to do with CORCAN. It really affected the penitentiary.