Mr. Speaker, the Edmonton women's prison is a well publicized disaster: one inmate murdered, one-quarter of the prison population on the escape list, and a rash of attempted suicides, all within a few weeks of opening.
All the parliamentary secretary to the solicitor general can say is: "We believe this model of incarceration represents the best
approach to addressing a very special need that women have". God help us if this is the best Corrections Canada can do. One thing Corrections Canada could do is sell the place to the Holiday Inn before it is too late and someone else dies.
Is the solicitor general planning to provide room service for the remaining inmates or is he going to shut the place down and admit that his gender experiment has failed?