Well, the most money you can make, the top of the salary range, if we can put it that way—it's not a perfect characterization—is $6.90 a day. If you look at the contributions to inmate committee funds and the other expenses I was talking about, such as telephones, etc., you'll see that you don't have a lot of money to play with. Ten per cent of the income has to go mandatorily into your savings account; 15% has to go to the inmate welfare fund; 8% goes to paying for the telephone administration fee; 22% goes to food and accommodation costs; and then there's a 25% mandatory reimbursement if there's any outstanding debt to the crown, through victim fine surcharges and those kinds of things. It does not leave a lot of money to fuel addiction inside institutions.
On December 1st, 2016. See this statement in context.