Mr. Speaker, in one year the NDP's estimate of the capital costs of prisons has come down from $17 billion to $3 billion now, which is about $2.5 billion too high.
However, it is no surprise that there are in fact more gangsters in prison. Our government has created a number of initiatives to ensure that gangsters who commit violent crimes against innocent people should be, and are, in prison. Unlike the NDP's catch and release prisons, we believe that dangerous gangsters should be in prison.