I want to thank you both for being with us here today. I only have seven minutes with you, so if I cut you off, it's not that I'm trying to be rude.
One of the things that I think often gets lost with the public is that we've increased our prison population, we've cut funding to correctional services, and we're not putting a focus on rehabilitation and reintegrating people. Not having the resources, releasing people who then become unlawfully at large, or a number of other things create a public safety risk. Eventually the majority of people get out of prison.
We talked a little about programming. I was recently in Winnipeg and was given a tour of the various facilities there. One of the things that came up was the community corrections liaison officers. Are you familiar with them?
They were actually police officers who served alongside parole officers. That was one of the cuts that was made. It seems it was a very small amount of money for a program that was working really well in the community and had parole working hand in hand with police.
There was nothing in your report about those types of programs. Is that within your mandate?