Mr. Speaker, I wonder if we could bring this debate to another level, another plain.
I agree that with the Young Offenders Act there must be some rehabilitative process. Right now with the federal government and the provincial governments there are young offender services and programs in place.
I wish the minister would have answered this question herself, but the hon. member for Mississauga West is going to have to do his best. The minister talked about working with the provinces. The minister talked about a consultative process with the provinces. The minister talked about cost sharing with the provinces. Right now federal funding of the young offenders services and programs has been reduced to the point where in Manitoba it is funding only 34% of the programs. In B.C. it is only funding 22% of the same programs that the member for Mississauga West embraces. It is now funding only 31% of the programs in the province of Saskatchewan.
Why is it that the member embraces these programs on one hand, but now all of the funding from the government is removed on the other hand?