Government Operations committee  In the prairie region it's much higher, and it varies by institution. In some institutions, such as in our healing lodges, for example, it is almost 100%. It's 50% in some of the other major institutions.

Government Operations committee  Sorry, maybe I didn't make myself clear. We don't have to find the $2.1 billion; that money is being added to our budget.

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  No, we're subject to the operating budgetary freeze, like others. This year, as I mentioned, it's $4.8 million that we have to address. Next year it's $6.3 million.

Government Operations committee  We're freezing at the levels, except for those cases where we're getting additional resources as a result of new initiatives that have been approved.

Government Operations committee  The 4,119 are all new jobs and include correctional officers, nurses, psychologists, program officers--every job needed to manage that increase in the population. I should just add as well, because you mentioned programs and education...some of the things we're doing we have been working on for the last couple of years as part of our transformation agenda.

Government Operations committee  Thanks for that question. We find very clearly through our research that offenders who participate in programs are more likely to reintegrate back into the community in a non-reoffending manner. For us that is important. We know through the various programs that we deliver and the research that we've done that the results speak for themselves.

Government Operations committee  Yes, just very quickly, there's accountability for everything, from following their correctional plans or not following them, which will impact their transfers to lower levels of security or their eligibility for a discretionary release granted by the National Parole Board. There are accountability measures for behaviours that are contrary to the rules.

Government Operations committee  Thanks very much for that precise question. There are several efficiencies that we've identified that we're going to pursue, for example, the reduction in the amount of overtime. Through the implementation of our security deployment standards, our rostering system, we've been able to reduce our overtime expenditures in comparison with the previous year by about 47% and over the last three years by about 32%.

Government Operations committee  Thanks again for that question. Over the last two years we've made a significant investment in the training of our staff overall, but very specifically, as it relates to the comment that you made, we have invested in training our front-line staff, starting with our health care professionals, in the area of mental health.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for that multi-level question. I have a couple of comments. One of the things that we are ensuring as we move forward, as I mentioned in my opening comments, is that whatever we do, whether it's related to the changes in legislation, to departmental budget freezes, or to anything around our overall transformation agenda, is that the environment within which our staff work, our inmates live, and our visitors come to is safe and secure.

Government Operations committee  Those are part of all the costs, yes.

Government Operations committee  Yes, we've looked at the cost overall and at how we proportion that across the country, including exchange-of-service agreements, which are what we have with the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Government Operations committee  Yes. In terms of Bill C-25, the estimate is $2.1 billion over the five-year period. That includes operating costs, capital costs, and the employee benefits plan. As an example, for 2010-11 the cost or the infusion into our budget is just over $88 million. That ramps up to $572 million or $573 million next year.

Government Operations committee  The practice has been that any information we have, that goes through the normal Treasury Board-cabinet discussion processes, is treated as cabinet confidence. That's the way that business has always been done. We've respected those rules. There was no other direction given to us.