Evidence of meeting #16 for Public Safety and National Security in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was health.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Liberal
Nicola Di Iorio Liberal Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC
It seems to me that this kind of work is not for everyone.
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Vice-President, Union of Canadian Correctional Officers
Just very quickly on that, we've had discussions before about how in the old days correctional officers were hired to be the muscle, to not be anything but the security, the ones who walked in there and fought with the inmates. They were hired for that. We're hired now because we have to be the social workers, we have to counsel the inmates, we have to talk to them. We do all these other aspects of the job. We're hired because we're more compassionate, or we understand what the inmates are going through. It's part of rehabilitating them. We're hiring people who have that type of mentality, that—
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Liberal
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Liberal
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Liberal
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Rob Oliphant
No, excuse me. We're at nine minutes, so in respect to all the parties who are given seven minutes, I have to end it. It's at nine minutes, and we're over one o'clock.
Thank you very much. If you'd like to respond in some way to the member, you're able to, but I have to respect all the parties' time.
Thank you very much for coming.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Rob Oliphant
I'm sure we'll see you at this committee on future studies.
Thank you very much.
The meeting is adjourned.