Let me say that the relationship between the Correctional Service of Canada and the Office of the Correctional Investigator is a very good, professional, productive relationship. I have investigative staff in an institution somewhere in this country every day. Cumulatively, my investigators spent over 400 days in institutions across the country last year. They are well received. They are well supported. We have very little difficulty in terms of getting access to the people, the places, the things, the documents that we need. In part that's because that's all guaranteed in law, but in part it's also because of the professionalism of both my staff and the men and women who work for the Correctional Service of Canada.
It's hardly ever adversarial—hardly ever. Sometimes it is. It's most adversarial, actually, when the commissioner and I sit down, and even then it's not very adversarial. By the time a problem isn't resolved at the institution, it's not resolved at the region, it's not resolved between the good work of my management team and the CSC management team, and it's something the commissioner and I have to meet and talk about, then positions are a little entrenched and it can be a bit positional, but we work through that. If there wasn't tension, then probably my job wouldn't be necessary.
