Thank you, Mr. Sapers and Mr. Zinger, for being here, and thanks for your service.
I have to be frank. I was very dumbfounded—as people I know would be—to hear that prisoners get an allowance. I was even more dumbfounded to hear you recommend that it be increased. I understand that you can't incarcerate somebody and not allow them to send out birthday cards, as you said, or what have you. My suggestion is that rather than an allowance, you would allow them one letter a week or two, or whatever is reasonable, and the same thing with purchases at the tuck shop. Most taxpayers would find it just unbelievable that they pay to incarcerate these people, and then they have to pay them an allowance.
At any rate, there are a whole bunch of areas here. The aboriginal aspect is one that we could talk about forever, but I think there have been a lot of questions there.
You read all the time about the addictions inside. Most of it is drugs, I believe. Does the prison system administer illegal drugs in any way, at any time—yes or no—to the prisoners?