Human Resources committee  I'd have to go back and check the rules around that, but nothing comes to top of mind.

Human Resources committee  Yes. About 46% of the individuals who are age 65 and older are serving sentences for either murder one or murder two, so those are life sentences that come with varying parole eligibility dates. About 32% are serving time for sex offences. The majority of those seem to be offences in the range of four to five years.

Human Resources committee  We don't have data on dependants per se, but we know that about a quarter of the offenders I was mentioning are married or in some kind of common-law relationship.

Human Resources committee  It's possible. We can't confirm that. Our database doesn't collect that information. We could only do that by having a file-by-file manual review.

Human Resources committee  Minimally we strive for them to have $80 when they go out the door. That figure was determined many years ago and is not necessarily consistent with the cost of anything today. We are reviewing our entire inmate stipend regime to see whether that figure is appropriate. On your specific question, it really is dependent upon what the offenders are engaged in, other than the inmate remuneration pieces I talked about.

Human Resources committee  No. We're re-examining our entire inmate stipend regime. That number has been in place for many years. We all know that, for example, it would be hard to secure a hotel room for one night for that amount of money. So we are currently looking at restructuring our entire inmate remuneration regime.

Human Resources committee  No. We provided advice to HRSDC staff on impacts, number of offenders, and processes that could be used for information sharing.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  As far as the expectations on Correctional Service Canada, it's workable. In terms of sharing the information with HRSDC, we can make this work. We have similar types of information-sharing agreements with other government departments for other reasons. We can make this one work just like we make the others work.

Human Resources committee  We looked at it in detail, particularly what's required to collect the information that's needed to share with our counterpart agency, and nothing of significance arose in that assessment.

Human Resources committee  There will be nothing that we can't absorb. It's basically getting the information-sharing agreement in place, which really has no cost; setting up the query run on our database; and then producing the report. So the costs are nil, for all intents and purposes.

Human Resources committee  We will provide the information to HRSDC. The people who make those decisions over there will be informed about individuals who come into the system and are within those various age parameters, and they will initiate all action. There will be no action on our part to stop or collect payments.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Good morning, and thank you, Madam Chair and committee members, for the opportunity to discuss how the proposed bill would affect CSC operations, that being Bill C-31. First I'd like to address how many federal offenders may be impacted by this bill and then I will provide you with some information about how we manage offenders' moneys while they are incarcerated.

Government Operations committee  We've also embarked on implementing what we call our integrated correctional program model, which is intended to get offenders more engaged with their correctional plans much earlier in their sentences. Rather than having individuals waiting until about 150 to 250 days before becoming involved in their first program, we're getting offenders involved in programing within the first 30 days that they come within the federal system.

Government Operations committee  It ranges from between 18% to 20%. Oh, you said in the prairies. Sorry, that's CSC overall.