Mr. Speaker, what my hon. colleague refers to is totally unacceptable and I can assure him that it is under review.
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Dangerous Offenders April 30th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, what my hon. colleague refers to is totally unacceptable and I can assure him that it is under review.
Dangerous Offenders April 30th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, we have Correctional Service Canada and when a person serves a term or comes to the end of his or her term, or is released on conditional release, he or she has a number of conditions. Sometimes, very seldom, things do not work as Correctional Service Canada wants them to work.
Quite simply my hon. colleague needs to realize that when he brings up individual cases I do not know all offenders in this country. Possibly they are close friends of my hon. colleague, but I do not know them all.
Dangerous Offenders April 30th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, we have a number of types of institutions in this country: maximum, medium, minimum and some halfway houses.
My hon. colleague is talking about an offender who had finished his term in minimum security and was going to a halfway house. As a few do, he did not do what he was supposed to do under the Conditional Release Act.
Dangerous Offenders April 28th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, if my hon. colleague really wanted an answer on a specific issue, he would give me notice. The fact is my hon. colleague just wants to put on a show with his question.
Dangerous Offenders April 28th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, these issues are handled by Correctional Service Canada and it decided this was how this individual would be transported.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police April 19th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, I told my hon. colleague that the budget for the RCMP is $1.2 billion. The increase in the last budget was $37 million. There is a resource review in place. Is my hon. colleague telling me that he is not concerned at all how federal dollars are spent in this country?
Penitentiaries April 16th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, as I have indicated to my hon. colleague, it was a medium institution and now it will become a minimum institution because that is the requirement of Correctional Service Canada.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police April 16th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, as I indicated, we are addressing the problem.
We do have a resource review. My hon. colleague is well aware too that a very few months ago we did find $10 million to address a problem in E division. We did enact DNA legislation. We did put 13 proceeds of crime units in place. The proceeds of crime units are in place in fact to take the proceeds out of crime.
That is what the government is doing to give our police forces the tools to do their job.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police April 16th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, the RCMP have a $1.2 billion budget. In the last budget the RCMP received a $37 million increase.
My hon. colleague is well aware a resource review is taking place with my department, the RCMP and Treasury Board, to make sure that the dollars are spent properly and that we are able to address organized crime in an efficient way.
Corrections Canada April 14th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, I wish my hon. colleague had given me notice of the question. I would have had an appropriate answer for him this afternoon. I will get the information for my hon. colleague and I will give it to him.