Madam Speaker, I would have a question for the hon. minister.
Having been a teacher all my life, I have spent a lot of time in juvenile court. I have come to the conclusion, and you said so yourself a moment ago, that unless prevention is undertaken very early on, at the elementary or secondary level, drastic legislation, much too drastic legislation has to be passed, the price of which society will have to pay sooner or later.
In my region, politicians have visited schools and worked very hard. But then, the funding-provincial funding of course-was cut. I have also heard that the RCMP's prevention budget was cut as well.
Should we not put emphasis, much more emphasis, on prevention, in fact give it all we have got in terms of money as well as highly qualified staff to try to nip this problem in the bud, so to speak?