Thank you, Mr. Minister, for being here today.
You mentioned during your input earlier the health care professional's independent decision-making. If a health care official visits an inmate once a day and that prisoner is being watched for 20 hours a day, and for four hours under the new act he or she can move around, you're saying that the health care professional has the ability to say that the person should be released or removed from that part of the jail.
Is there an appeal or a method under the new act whereby the institutional head or the commissioner may say, no, we do not think it's safe, or in the interests of the guards, the other prisoners or even the inmate himself or herself?
We're going to be dealing with, yes, a professional person who might be seeing that person for half an hour a day, in contrast to the guards and the institution, watching that person for 23 and a half hours a day. I wonder whether there is a mechanism for the head or the commissioner to object to that assessment.