Public Accounts committee  You also stated that there are delays in release to facilities due to offenders being rejected. Are people delayed in getting parole or access to neighbourhood facilities because the community-based organizations are rejecting them, so therefore there's a long delay in getting into one of the 14 Correctional Service Canada facilities?

Public Accounts committee  I think that my last question is a concern for Canadians in general, but particularly for my constituents. We're seeing a good pattern where people are getting placed into community-based facilities more prevalently. I just want to confirm that the reoffending rate has dropped, as a result of that, and not increased.

Public Accounts committee  Would you be able to table to the committee based on region? I would like to know particularly if there's a shortage of parole officers on the west coast, particularly in the Greater Vancouver Lower Mainland region.

Public Accounts committee  I want to thank you. I have a lot of constituents, and a lot of family and friends as well, who are corrections officers and work in the force. It's a very admirable career. Most of them have had very satisfactory lives and currently are employed with them. I also have a city with a lot of youth crime.

Public Accounts committee  Okay. That's good. In Surrey there's a concern that some offenders are so dangerous—and this is more of a public safety concern for the parole officers themselves—that they have no place to meet them because the offender himself or herself is at risk of being a target, and therefore they are not meeting the offenders as stated by their conditions.

Public Accounts committee  On that same note, when you're out in international settings, such as a UN mission or a NATO mission, if there's a claim by somebody about a commander officer or a superior sexually harassing somebody from the Canadian Forces, is there a policy or mechanism to deal with different nations' forces?

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Chair. Sexual misconduct in any workplace, including the Canadian Armed Forces, is obviously very serious in nature. I was relatively pleased with the scope of the report and how it looked at many facets of the force's response to sexual misconduct. While reading the report, I was very concerned by the fact that training on matters relating to awareness and prevention of sexual harassment was not always mandatory for the Canadian Armed Forces.

Public Accounts committee  I'm fine with that. What concerns me is what's sensitive to one adjuster versus another. That's my issue. One might be much more sensitive to a flood or a health issue, while another might be super-hard and say, “I don't give a damn if you had a heart attack, if your husband was in the hospital, or if you had a flood you had to deal with.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. With regard to penalties and interest, there seems to be a discrepancy in terms of some officers giving more interest and penalties and other officers giving less weight. I'm surprised no consistent methodology or guidelines are given to officers so that everyone has the same.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Chair. This question is for the commissioner, but perhaps the Auditor General's office might want to take heed if it hasn't been looked at in this round. My riding is Surrey Centre. I'm from British Columbia, from Vancouver, where high home prices are a huge factor.

Public Accounts committee  I think I finished it. I just wanted to know how you accurately calculate payroll. Is the Phoenix issue still ongoing? Compared to how it was in the past, is it a challenge?

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. I have a few questions. If we were to write off the loan, that would take it off the books but it wouldn't extinguish liability. Am I right? The person who's owing that amount still owes it. The government has assumed that the ability to collect on that is gone. I'm just curious.

Public Accounts committee  Do you have any idea of what that is as a percentage of the written-off debt? Would that be like a low 10%?

Public Accounts committee  Could it be 10% of that?

Public Accounts committee  I'm just trying to get a handle on this. When you say unfunded prior to the nineties for pension liabilities, does it mean amounts to pay are short, or may be short, or other, in terms of pensions?