Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for the good work he does in committee.
In my speech earlier today I talked about the number of drug seizures within our federal penitentiaries. It may have surprised someone listening for the first time to this subject. At the same time, Correctional Services Canada has acknowledged that about 80% of federal inmates have a substance abuse problem.
The NDP plan, enabling drug users to continue using drugs by giving them needles, is not the way to go.
How do these illegal substances, these drugs, get into the prisons in the first place? I think that is something Canadians would like to know.