Mr. Speaker, Correctional Service Canada is mandated by the law to carry out the sentence imposed by the court. The courts have held on many occasions that if there is negligence in the way that it is done, then there is a cause of action for negligence.
That is what happened in this case. The inmate was taken as a hostage. He was beaten with an iron bar. He sued for $60,000. The settlement that was advised as a result of a pretrial conference by the presiding judge was not $60,000; it was $12,000.
There is no reward for murder or for acting illegally. It is simply a matter of following the precedents in previous cases.