Thank you, Chair.
I just want to make a quick comment on the food issue. That visit to Kent Institution with Mr. Noormohamed was a real eye-opener. It made me feel glad I had a visitor's badge attached when I walked through those gates.
It was just incredible. Both those institutions—Mountain and Kent—are in Agassiz, B.C., surrounded by the most fertile farmland that British Columbia has to offer. It is just incredible that we're not pumping up the local economy and buying local food. In a previous life, I was a tree planter—I did it for eight years—and I know that the quality of the food served in camp has a huge impact on morale. If it's not good, you can have a mutiny.
I just want to underline the fact that having good-quality food can be such a huge boost to morale and to overall behaviour. It's really incredible.
Dr. Zinger, you said that with a $3-billion budget—with that kind of money—we should have world-class results. It's obvious that we do not.
I am just incredibly frustrated, because we just keep talking about the Correctional Service of Canada, but the buck stops with the Minister of Public Safety. Our job as legislators is not only to look at the authorizing legislation—the Corrections and Conditional Release Act. We also have to hold the ministry of public safety accountable.
I guess my very basic question to you is, what can we as opposition members of Parliament do to help you out? Do you need legislative change? Do you need the minister to take a more forceful role? Ultimately, the Correctional Service of Canada is answerable to the minister, who holds his position by confidence of the House of Commons.