Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for that excellent question.
If it was my desire, all kids in this country who have been convicted of less than violent offences would be in a justice circle modelled after the native sentencing system.
That is happening in my riding right now. It was an interesting partnership that started it. Neighbourhood Watch teamed up with the St. Leonard's Society in my riding of London West, Ontario, and put it to together. Even the provincial Government of Ontario, which often talks about boot camps, is helping to fund some of these circles, or justice circles as they wish to be called in my riding.
As recently as last week there was a movement to put the partners together with the Fanshawe College social worker, students together with the local board of education, to alleviate some of these partnership concerns and to get the synergy of people working in an interdisciplinary fashion on the same problems, surrounding the offender with a system that would be supportive long after the sentencing circle had gone for the evening.
It is a very inexpensive thing to do. It is done mainly with volunteers and expert supervision.
I hope that this is something we could see a lot more of in different communities around the country. It makes communities take ownership of and embrace their own children. They do not have to rely on prisons for a period of incarceration, pretending that they can forget about them and they will come back better.