Human Resources committee  Sure. In the canteen they can buy pop, chips, food items, some basic health care items such as toothpaste, antacid. They can use their moneys to buy additional clothing above and beyond the clothing we provide them.

Human Resources committee  We provide them a $4 credit that allows them to purchase those items. It saves us the procurement costs of having to go out and buy these things.

Human Resources committee  It really boils down to the issue of whether it will create some kind of hardship in terms of the offender following the correctional plan. Our goal is to have offenders follow a correctional plan, which is to get them involved in interventions and programs and skills development that will help prepare them for release back into the community.

Human Resources committee  To be honest, Madam Chair and committee members, it's not a piece of information we collect. We know the status of offenders in terms of married, common law, divorced, separated. We know that information. But in terms of dependants they have, we do not collect that information in terms of—

Human Resources committee  Well, again, in terms of delivering on our mandate under the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, it's not critical that we gather that information. We would take it in account when working with individual offenders in terms of their correctional plans, but it's not something we collect in an automated way.

Human Resources committee  It's $138 a month.

Human Resources committee  Yes, in terms of what we could determine as sources of income for the purpose of applying section 78 of the act.

Human Resources committee  Section 104.1 of the regulations.

Human Resources committee  I'll just quickly explain the process. Normally what happens is that if an offender passes that $69 threshold, there is an automatic deduction made on the moneys above the $69 per two-week period. That's unless the offender makes written application to the institutional head, to the warden, for consideration for hardship reasons or whatever the case may be.

Human Resources committee  That's right, yes.

Human Resources committee  Yes, the 30% applies to those five prescribed sources that I just mentioned.

Human Resources committee  The $69 per pay period, so there are two. Their pay periods are every two weeks. So if you were at the top inmate remuneration, or at the top level of the inmate remuneration scale, which is $6.90 a day times 10 days per pay period, that's how we come up with the $69. In terms of calculating moneys above that....

Human Resources committee  Without deductions.

Human Resources committee  If the moneys come from one of those five prescribed sources in section 104.1 of the regulations. For example, if a family were to send in $500 to an offender, we would have no way of determining the source of the money other than it came from a family member, and that would just go into their savings account.

Human Resources committee  Above the $69, yes.