Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Zinger, thank you for being with us today and for doing your job so thoroughly.
I want to ask you some questions about the authority of the Office of the Correctional Investigator.
In your report, you expressed some frustration with action taken by Correctional Service Canada in response to your recommendations. It seems that, for quite some time, the recommendations you make have been copied and pasted from year to year or simply reworded, because changes are not necessarily being made.
We might think that Correctional Service Canada is not acting on these new recommendations because they don't have enough resources or they are short-staffed, for example. However, according to the profile you gave us at the beginning, you say that the ratio of correctional officers to prisoners is one of the best in the world. You also say that Correctional Service Canada has a budget of almost $3 billion. So we can do away with those assumptions.
In your opinion, why is Correctional Service Canada not acting on your recommendations year after year?