Really quickly, that's been a request for the last 30 years. It's been out there, and correctional investigators and others have referred to it. National leaders have reinforced it. I think it's a very important position and focus to be created, but more than just creating the commissioner is to begin to pull aside and put some real dollars behind it, so that more work.... I want to end with this. In my time it was 1,400 to 1,700 incarcerated. Now it's 4,000, and it's going to go to 4,000 or 5,000. More resources and more specific focus and direction are needed. A commissioner who's focused on that mandate and has the ability to do what we started with the healing lodge programs and some of the community reintegration programs, I think, is fundamental to the ask.
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