Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for her question but I do not purport to talk for the Reform Party. I will talk about what this government wants to do. The Reform Party members can speak for themselves. They are on the record and have proven themselves true to form again.
As far as this government is concerned, the National Crime Prevention Council that was set up by the federal government made recommendations to this government concerning crime prevention.
Poverty is an important issue in terms of preventing crimes, starting at age zero. This would include taking care of nutrition, helping parents and single parent families to deal with the problems which start early and helping dysfunctional families from the very beginning. We are investing, as is on the record and as was our commitment in the election campaign, $32 million in terms of community based crime prevention initiatives. As I said in my speech, we will be doing the launch of these initiatives in a few days.
I want to assure the member that the recommendations of the National Crime Prevention Council are the basis of a lot of crime prevention initiatives. We consider community based initiatives as being the most appropriate way to begin. That is the route we are taking.
Yes we have to take care of other social problems such as poverty and child malnutrition. We can talk about fetal alcohol syndrome and all the other syndromes. Those are the types of initiatives we are looking at in terms of funding and making sure we prevent crime at zero age.