Mr. Speaker, the cat is out of the bag. The Conservatives are secretly considering the possibility of privatizing jails and have commissioned a major study of this matter.
The minister even had an in-depth discussion about private prisons with his British counterpart last May and then, in June, denied that private prisons were part of his plan.
I have two questions for the minister.
Do the Conservatives want to privatize jails? If they do not, why waste taxpayers' money on such a study?